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Wes Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Inside THE BOX Insane since: May 2000	posted 06-01-2000 21:17 Hope everyone doesn't mind my asking for so much help here; I just don't have much of a programmer's mind.<P>If you take a look at my old Free Stuff page http://www.bigwaste.com/freestuff/ you'll discover a number of texture thumbnails. Click on one and you get an ugly page using the selected texture as a background, with the name of the texture and a link to the image itself. Of course, I did this a long time ago and did it the dumb way of having a different HTML file for each texture.<P>Well, I've been redoing the entire site and it is now Free Stuff's turn. It will look more like http://www.bigwaste.com/info/ and I will be adding about 30 new textures. What I would like to do is set it up to navigate similarly, although I'm considering having the thumbnail link to a page with the full-size image, it's name, file size and download instructions, with a link to open a blank window with just the image as background to show how it tiles. (Opinions on this navigation idea are welcome.) Regardless, I don't want to create a new page for every texture.<P>I pondered using Ozone's XSSI technique shown below, but I soon realized I would still need to create a different HTML file for each texture with the image name, etc.<P><!--#set var="which" value="$QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED" --> <!--#if expr="$which != ''" --> <!--#include virtual="$which" --> <!--#endif --><P>Again, not being a programmer, I'm really not sure how to tackle this without having someone write me a Perl program to handle everything.<P>Anyone have any ideas?<P>Thanks for your help, and I'll try to contribute more. <P>
DocOzone Maniac (V) Lord Mad Scientist Sovereign of all the lands Ozone and just beyond that little green line over there... From: Stockholm, Sweden Insane since: Mar 1994	posted 06-01-2000 21:26 Actually, you could still use XSSI for this. Call for a display.html page, like...<P><a href="display.html?tiledimage.jpeg"><P>Now you could use a single include statement like this...<P><!--#echo var="$QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED" --><P>This single line would output that image name. Now you have stuff like...<P><body background="<!--#echo var="$QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED" -->"><P><H1><!--#echo var="$QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED" --></H1><P>You get the idea. Try it out, I used an ugly javascript to generate my background pages, it was heavier than it needed to be, maybe I'll re-write mine too!<P>
Wes Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Inside THE BOX Insane since: May 2000	posted 06-02-2000 00:24 Ahh! It seems so simple. I told you I don't have a programmer's mind. Now, how about this - say I want to add a second variable. Use the file name like you did here, but also display a more user-friendly name for the image like "Plasma Storm" above the image. Can you add another variable like that to the link?<P>Thank you for the help. <P>
Wes Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Inside THE BOX Insane since: May 2000	posted 06-02-2000 01:50 Incidentally, I tried...<P><!--#echo var="$QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED" --><P>...and all I got was the result (none).<P>I played with it for awhile and came up with...<P><!--#set var="which" value="$QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED" --> <!--#echo var="which" --><P>...which worked. Had to define it as the variable "which" first for some reason. However...<P><!--#fsize virtual="$QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED"--><P>...worked.<P> <p>[This message has been edited by Wes (edited 02-06-2000).]

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Wes
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist

From: Inside THE BOX
Insane since: May 2000

posted 06-01-2000 21:17

Hope everyone doesn't mind my asking for so much help here; I just don't have much of a programmer's mind.If you take a look at my old Free Stuff page http://www.bigwaste.com/freestuff/ you'll discover a number of texture thumbnails. Click on one and you get an ugly page using the selected texture as a background, with the name of the texture and a link to the image itself. Of course, I did this a long time ago and did it the dumb way of having a different HTML file for each texture.Well, I've been redoing the entire site and it is now Free Stuff's turn. It will look more like http://www.bigwaste.com/info/ and I will be adding about 30 new textures. What I would like to do is set it up to navigate similarly, although I'm considering having the thumbnail link to a page with the full-size image, it's name, file size and download instructions, with a link to open a blank window with just the image as background to show how it tiles. (Opinions on this navigation idea are welcome.) Regardless, I don't want to create a new page for every texture.I pondered using Ozone's XSSI technique shown below, but I soon realized I would still need to create a different HTML file for each texture with the image name, etc.


Again, not being a programmer, I'm really not sure how to tackle this without having someone write me a Perl program to handle everything.Anyone have any ideas?Thanks for your help, and I'll try to contribute more.

DocOzone
Maniac (V) Lord Mad Scientist
Sovereign of all the lands Ozone and just beyond that little green line over there...

From: Stockholm, Sweden
Insane since: Mar 1994

posted 06-01-2000 21:26

Actually, you could still use XSSI for this. Call for a display.html page, like...<a href="display.html?tiledimage.jpeg">Now you could use a single include statement like this...This single line would output that image name. Now you have stuff like...<body background=""><H1></H1>You get the idea. Try it out, I used an ugly javascript to generate my background pages, it was heavier than it needed to be, maybe I'll re-write mine too!

Wes
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist

From: Inside THE BOX
Insane since: May 2000

posted 06-02-2000 00:24

Ahh! It seems so simple. I told you I don't have a programmer's mind. Now, how about this - say I want to add a second variable. Use the file name like you did here, but also display a more user-friendly name for the image like "Plasma Storm" above the image. Can you add another variable like that to the link?Thank you for the help.

Wes
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist

From: Inside THE BOX
Insane since: May 2000

posted 06-02-2000 01:50

Incidentally, I tried......and all I got was the result (none).I played with it for awhile and came up with...
...which worked. Had to define it as the variable "which" first for some reason. However......worked. [This message has been edited by Wes (edited 02-06-2000).]