Web Development

Re: Comparing font size in IE

6-Jul-05 6:44

Although the font size and style can affect the size of an element, there is no easy way of calculating the element size from the font size and style.

What are you going to use it for?

Perhaps you are looking for the IHTMLElement.offsetWidth and IHTMLElement.offsetHeight properties?

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b { font-weight: normal; }

llp00na6-Jul-05 8:06

llp00na

6-Jul-05 8:06

thanx for the reply,

no i am not looking for the offsetWidth and offsetHeight.

I wana find out the size of the FONT of the different textual elements and compare them. After that, i wana sort them out according to the size of the font. For example, if you have two seperate paragraphs, how would you know which paragraph is written in bigger FONT regardless of the number of words in each paragraph !!!

i am not trying to calculate the size of the overall block, i am only trying to get a numerical value of the SIZE OF THE FONT used !!!

any ideas !!!

llp00na

Re: Comparing font size in IE

Guffa6-Jul-05 9:31

6-Jul-05 9:31

I see. You wrote that you wanted to compare the size of elements, that was what threw me off.

I don't think that there is a way to get the actual size that is used to draw the text. I don't think that you even can get the actual font that is used to draw the text. The style information only contains what is the desired font, size and style of the text. If the computer does not support that setting, it will choose one that supposedly is as close as possible. For example, if the font specified in the style is not installed on the computer, it will choose another font.

To furter complicate the matter, font sizes isn't always comparable across fonts. For example Verdana 10px looks a bit larger than Times New Roman 10px.

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javascript

cmarmr6-Jul-05 4:00

cmarmr

6-Jul-05 4:00

is there a way i can use javascript to do what i can do with
"Request.Form("field")" to get the info off the page before my current page. i am looking for something to run at the client computer

thanks
chad

Re: javascript

Guffa6-Jul-05 6:48

Re: Regular Expression Help

6-Jul-05 6:48

No. The form data is sent from a page to the server. The server does not relay the form data into the header of the next page.

If you send the data in the url instead (post the form with method="GET") you will be able to retrieve it on the next page.

This function might be useful if you choose that method:
Javascript : querystring[^]

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Re: javascript

pigangel_yang28-Jul-05 17:51

pigangel_yang

28-Jul-05 17:51

use "get" mothed

Regular Expression Help

Brian Van Beek5-Jul-05 4:30

Brian Van Beek

5-Jul-05 4:30

Ok, I'm working on this project, we have a need to "standardize" our address data. So, right now, I have regular expressions that will turn North 7th Street into the USPS approved standard of "N 7th St" However, we have found out that we now have customers with addresses like "North Avenue" and it is unacceptable to report it as "N Ave" So, now to my actual question, is there a way with a regular expression ONLY to verify that the next word (after north for example) is not avenue. For clarifiaction, if the word Notrh is found, check to see if the very next word is avenue, and if it is, then we don't want to match. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Brian Van Beek
Here's my boring blog! [^]

mtone5-Jul-05 5:04

mtone

5-Jul-05 5:04

The same way you are finding North find Avenue after it or you can look for North and a number.
Show us your code.

Re: Regular Expression Help

Brian Van Beek5-Jul-05 5:53

Brian Van Beek

5-Jul-05 5:53

Well, here's the problem, I can't just look for a number after it, because West Duff Avenue should become W Duff Ave. Here is what I have so far...

((\b[Nn][Oo][Rr][Tt][Hh])\b)|(\b[Nn]\b\.?)

It's just a really simple regex to find the match, then I replace it with the appropriate abbreviation. This is all done during a sort of batched job. Now, I just need to be able to "not match" if the next word is avenue. But I want to do it all in one regex. Is this possible? [obviously you can tell that I'm a beginner in the world of regular expressions]

Brian Van Beek
Here's my boring blog! [^]

Javascript and Frames

mtone5-Jul-05 3:17

mtone

5-Jul-05 3:17

I am trying to figure out how to load one frame from an event in another. Here is me frames page

<frameset border="0" frameSpacing="0" rows="15%,80%,5%" frameBorder="0">
<frame name="top" src="index.htm" scrolling="no" width="50%">
<frameset cols="25%,75%" >
<frame name="treeframe" src="HtmlPage2.htm" scrolling="yes" >
<frame name="Content" src="">
</frameset>
<frame name="bottom" src="HtmlPage3.htm" scrolling="no" width="50%">
</frameset>

I am clicking a link in treeframes and want to load the page into Content. I have tried everything i could think of and other things I found on somne javascript sites. My page will loadinto itself or not load and casue the frame to go blank.

Any help is greatly needed and appreciated

Joe

Re: Javascript and Frames

Guffa5-Jul-05 3:31

Re: Javascript and Frames

5-Jul-05 3:31

The simplest way is to not use javascript at all:

<a href="PageToLoad.htm" target="Content">

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mtone5-Jul-05 3:49

mtone

5-Jul-05 3:49

I tried this but the page opens in a new window.

Re: Javascript and Frames

Guffa5-Jul-05 7:27

How to Play Video in Asp.net

5-Jul-05 7:27

Strange. Check the spelling again.

Also try to open something in the frame initially instead of leaving src empty. It might brake the tag.

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imshally814-Jul-05 20:30

imshally81

4-Jul-05 20:30

Hi all,
How to Play Video file (any Format avi,mpeg,mpg,.........) in ASP.net.
Bascially, i develop a page, where some videos are present, if user click on them,then it Run.....
Plz help
Thanx in advance
Sajjad

Re: How to Play Video in Asp.net

minhpc_bk4-Jul-05 22:06

minhpc_bk

4-Jul-05 22:06

Hi there,
Basically, to play a media file in an ASP.NET application, you can use a media player plugin which is installed on the client machine, for example window media player or real player ...To host the media players on the web page, you need to use the object tag, and to make the player play a media file, you simply set the url of the media file in the URL or filename property of the player (it depends on which player and which version you use) and/or use the client side script to control the player. In addition, you can also specify the url to download the media player in the codebase attribute of the object element so that the player can get downloaded when it has not been installed on the client machine.

Character Count inside Header & footer

rohim.yasin4-Jul-05 20:17

rohim.yasin

4-Jul-05 20:17

Hi
i am using this script to calculate the number of character inside the header of a word document but it is not working.

wdStatisticCharactersWithSpaces = 5
wdStatisticCharacters = 3
IncludeFootnotesAndEndnotes = True
dpath = Cstr("F:\Softwares\01.doc")
Set word1 = CreateObject("Word.Application")
word1.Visible = False
word1.Documents.Open(dpath)
For i = 1 To word1.ActiveDocument.Sections.Count
text3 = word1.ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Headers (wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.ComputeStatistics _
(wdStatisticCharactersWithSpaces)

text4 = Cint(text4 + text3)
Next
Document.Write text4
word1.ActiveDocument.Close(SaveChanges)
word1.Application.Quit

Set word1 = Nothing

Is there anyone to help me out Thanks in advance Smile | :)

YasinXp

Re: Character Count inside Header & footer

rohim.yasin12-Jul-05 22:27

rohim.yasin

12-Jul-05 22:27

Pliz Help Me. I don't see any programmer to have the capability to solve this problem, Confused | :confused:

YasinXp

JS: Pass object by reference to a method

Stan Angeloff4-Jul-05 8:32

4-Jul-05 8:32

Hello everybody.

Can I pass a object to a method by reference in JavaScript? Take a look at the code:

<SPAN style="COLOR: #cccccc; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 1: </SPAN><FONT color=blue size=+1><</FONT>script type<FONT color=blue size=+1>=</FONT><FONT color=purple>"text/javascript"</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>></FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 2: </SPAN>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 3: </SPAN>	DummyType <FONT color=blue size=+1>=</FONT> <FONT color=red>function</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>(</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>)</FONT> <FONT color=blue size=+1>{</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 4: </SPAN>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #cccccc; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 5: </SPAN>		<FONT color=red>return</FONT> <FONT color=blue size=+1>{</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 6: </SPAN>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 7: </SPAN>			<FONT color=purple>"result"</FONT>	<FONT color=blue size=+1>:</FONT>	<FONT color=brown>0</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 8: </SPAN>		<FONT color=blue size=+1>}</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 9: </SPAN>	<FONT color=blue size=+1>}</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #cccccc; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">10: </SPAN>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">11: </SPAN>	<FONT color=red>function</FONT> ref<FONT color=blue size=+1>(</FONT>o<FONT color=blue size=+1>)</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">12: </SPAN>	<FONT color=blue size=+1>{</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">13: </SPAN>		o <FONT color=blue size=+1>=</FONT> <FONT color=blue size=+1>new</FONT> DummyType<FONT color=blue size=+1>(</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>)</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>;</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">14: </SPAN>	<FONT color=blue size=+1>}</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #cccccc; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">15: </SPAN>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">16: </SPAN>	<FONT color=red>var</FONT> obj <FONT color=blue size=+1>=</FONT> <FONT color=blue size=+1>new</FONT> DummyType<FONT color=blue size=+1>(</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>)</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>;</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">17: </SPAN>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">18: </SPAN>	obj<FONT color=blue size=+1>.</FONT>result <FONT color=blue size=+1>=</FONT> <FONT color=brown>1</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>;</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">19: </SPAN>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #cccccc; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">20: </SPAN>	ref<FONT color=blue size=+1>(</FONT>obj<FONT color=blue size=+1>)</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>;</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">21: </SPAN>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">22: </SPAN>	alert<FONT color=blue size=+1>(</FONT>obj<FONT color=blue size=+1>.</FONT>result<FONT color=blue size=+1>)</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>;</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">23: </SPAN>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">24: </SPAN><FONT color=blue size=+1><</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>/</FONT>script<FONT color=blue size=+1>></FONT>

The result I expected was 0, but it's still 1. I know I could use:

<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">1: </SPAN><FONT color=red>function</FONT> ref<FONT color=blue size=+1>(</FONT>o<FONT color=blue size=+1>)</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">2: </SPAN><FONT color=blue size=+1>{</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">3: </SPAN>	o<FONT color=blue size=+1>.</FONT>result <FONT color=blue size=+1>=</FONT> <FONT color=brown>0</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>;</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">4: </SPAN><FONT color=blue size=+1>}</FONT>

But this solution is not what I need.

Is this possible in JavaScript?

Thanks,
Stanimir Angeloff

minhpc_bk4-Jul-05 19:58

minhpc_bk

4-Jul-05 19:58

Hi there,
It's impossible I think, you might want to check out the core javascript reference[^] for more information. This is an interesting question though.

Stan Angeloff4-Jul-05 22:52

4-Jul-05 22:52

Hi!

Thank you for your reply. I'm sure there's a way to workaround this problem. I tried this, but it doesn't work Cry | :((

<SPAN style="COLOR: #cccccc; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 1: </SPAN><FONT color=blue size=+1><</FONT>script type<FONT color=blue size=+1>=</FONT><FONT color=purple>"text/javascript"</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>></FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 2: </SPAN>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 3: </SPAN>	DummyType <FONT color=blue size=+1>=</FONT> <FONT color=red>function</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>(</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>)</FONT> <FONT color=blue size=+1>{</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 4: </SPAN>		
<SPAN style="COLOR: #cccccc; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 5: </SPAN>		<FONT color=red>return</FONT> <FONT color=blue size=+1>{</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 6: </SPAN>			
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 7: </SPAN>			<FONT color=purple>"result"</FONT>	<FONT color=blue size=+1>:</FONT>	<FONT color=brown>0</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 8: </SPAN>		<FONT color=blue size=+1>}</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> 9: </SPAN>	<FONT color=blue size=+1>}</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #cccccc; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">10: </SPAN>	
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">11: </SPAN>	<FONT color=red>function</FONT> ref<FONT color=blue size=+1>(</FONT>o<FONT color=blue size=+1>)</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">12: </SPAN>	<FONT color=blue size=+1>{</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">13: </SPAN>		o<FONT color=blue size=+1>.</FONT>value <FONT color=blue size=+1>=</FONT> <FONT color=blue size=+1>new</FONT> DummyType<FONT color=blue size=+1>(</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>)</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>;</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">14: </SPAN>	<FONT color=blue size=+1>}</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #cccccc; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">15: </SPAN>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">16: </SPAN>	<FONT color=red>var</FONT> obj <FONT color=blue size=+1>=</FONT> <FONT color=blue size=+1>new</FONT> DummyType<FONT color=blue size=+1>(</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>)</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>;</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">17: </SPAN>	
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">18: </SPAN>	<FONT color=red>var</FONT> dummyArg <FONT color=blue size=+1>=</FONT> <FONT color=blue size=+1>{</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">19: </SPAN>		<FONT color=purple>"value"</FONT>	<FONT color=blue size=+1>:</FONT>	obj
<SPAN style="COLOR: #cccccc; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">20: </SPAN>	<FONT color=blue size=+1>}</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">21: </SPAN>	
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">22: </SPAN>	obj<FONT color=blue size=+1>.</FONT>result <FONT color=blue size=+1>=</FONT> <FONT color=brown>1</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>;</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">23: </SPAN>	
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">24: </SPAN>	ref<FONT color=blue size=+1>(</FONT>dummyArg<FONT color=blue size=+1>)</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>;</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #cccccc; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">25: </SPAN>	
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">26: </SPAN>	alert<FONT color=blue size=+1>(</FONT>obj<FONT color=blue size=+1>.</FONT>result<FONT color=blue size=+1>)</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>;</FONT>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">27: </SPAN>
<SPAN style="COLOR: #eeeeee; FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">28: </SPAN><FONT color=blue size=+1><</FONT><FONT color=blue size=+1>/</FONT>script<FONT color=blue size=+1>></FONT>

Any other ideas?

Christian Graus5-Jul-05 0:22

Christian Graus

5-Jul-05 0:22

The idea you got in reply was 'it's probably not possible', with a link to an online reference. 'Any other ideas' does not seem a valid response to me. I doubt very much that pass by reference exists in jscript, and certainly your approach (write a function called ref and hope it passes things magically by reference ) is not going to work.

It may be possible, but neither I nor your other respondent think it is. You should go to a bigger jscript forum if you hope for a better answer. Better yet, if it is possible, google is bound to know about it.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Stan Angeloff5-Jul-05 1:07

5-Jul-05 1:07

Thank you for explaining minhpc_bk's post to me.

'Any other ideas' means that I'm still asking for help. It's not a reply to minhpc_bk's post. In fact, minhpc_bk's post helped me a lot.

Christian Graus wrote:
...write a function called ref and hope it passes things magically by reference...

This is just an example, I don't hope it's going to magically work.

Google Groups - "Function arguments by reference"[^].

minhpc_bk5-Jul-05 0:30

minhpc_bk

5-Jul-05 0:30

Doing so only changes the result property of the dummyArg.value, but not the obj.result. You can see that with:

alert(dummyArg.value.result);

Stanimir Angeloff wrote:
Any other ideas?

I'm not sure I have other than you'll have to edit the property of the object instead of assigning another object to the function parameter.

PS: Nice formatting! Smile | :)

Stan Angeloff5-Jul-05 0:47