RE: call an rpg program to return a true/false value in javascript

As for the event, the HTML generated by the RPG could include a javascript
that informed the window that opened it that the cookie was now available,
it would then close.

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Cozzi (RPGIV) [mailto:cozzi@rpgiv.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 16:45
To: web400@midrange.com
Subject: RE: [WEB400] call an rpg program to return a true/false value in
javascript


Well I wasn't thinking of RPG being called, but consider this.

You use the target (or whatever that keyword is) to open the hRef in a new
windows. That hRef calls the CGI program and displays the HTML generated bye
the CGI. Then you have a window with your user selection choices or whatever
it is in there. Or perhaps nothing.

The CGI program writes the cookie out, and also sends some HTML to the
StdOut. That HTML is simply a short HTML that will close itself (hence
closing the new window) and therefore return you to the call's window.

Not the part I'd have to lookup...
Upon resuming in the original window, there is probably an event that would
need to be detected and a second JavaScript could be used to then read the
cookie written by the RPG program. I'm thinking of an OnFocus() event or
something like that.

Something like that might work.

Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
Visit the on-line  Midrange  Developer  forum at: http://www.rpgiv.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-admin@midrange.com [mailto:web400-admin@midrange.com] On
Behalf
> Of Richard B Baird
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:19 PM
> To: web400@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: [WEB400] call an rpg program to return a true/false value
in
> javascript
>
>
> Bob,
>
> I'm intrigued,  I can write a cookie in rpg, and read it in javascript
sure
> enough, but to call the rpg program to write it is the sticky part.
>
> by simply hrefing a cgi program, the browser will expect a new page to
be
> loaded.  right?
>
> if you can get around this, i'm all ears!
>
> the way I ended up doing it was to have the program reload the page,
after
> deciding the true/false condition and loading the appropriate
javascript
> already imbedded, to run onload.  not as elegant as I would have
liked, but
> functional.
>
> thanks,
>
> rick
>
>
> ---original message---
> If I'm late or repeating someone else's solution excuse me but...
> Couldn't you just write a cookie out and then read it back in the
> JavaScript?
>
> Bob Cozzi
> cozzi@rpgiv.com
> Visit the on-line  Midrange  Developer  forum at: http://www.rpgiv.com
>
>
>
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