Month: June 2004

Passing a variable to any page by clicking a link

Posted on June 26, 2004 by ellen

I am working on a game which requires people to log in by selecting whichever team they are on. Each team is made up of several departmental units.

People probably won’t know what team they belong to the first time they play. There is no list of all the potential players, so it isn’t possible to automatically associate users with teams.

So we constructed an entry page which lists all the departments and which teams they belong to. People find their department, and are automatically associated with a team.

It required creating a little script to pass the name of the team along to the game login page.

Presumably people WILL know what department they are in, and will be able to select their team in that manner.

The problem was, the team name has to be passed to Questionmark Perception’s login page, since it requires the team name to send whatever points are earned to the appropriate team.

I used the following javascript to set a hidden field “GROUP” on Questionmark’s login page, when a player clicks the team link on the Entry page.

Retrospect 5 for Mac won’t see files on Samba Shares in Panther

Posted on June 16, 2004 by ellen

Apparent solution: upgrade to Retrospect 6 – it sees the files again, but then I have been getting Assert Error 1582 on starting the backup. Looking at the Dantz Knowledgebase, it says to patch Retrospect

Swap style sheets in iFrame contents based on parent window size

Posted on June 16, 2004September 9, 2018 by ellen

For child documents that have the same hostname as the parent iframe document, you can use javascript to change stylesheets or other elements of the DOM on the child based on information sent from the parent.

The Wacom Tablet and Fireworks MX 2004

Posted on June 8, 2004 by ellen

Macromedia vector applications- Fireworks and Freehand – all seem to share problems with the Wacom tablets and have for quite a while. It used to be that the problems with Freehand and Fireworks could be

The Story of Eggdrop, Part II

Posted on June 4, 2004 by ellen

“going UP!”

To read Part I, click here

Eggivation!

After he had been back in the goldfish tank a while, I got the idea that changed Eggdrop’s life. I installed a bubbler in the tank to aerate the water at the bottom better, since the tank was pretty tall. One day we looked over at the tank and there was Eggie, shooting up to the top of the tank on a geyser of bubbles.

After watching this for a few weeks, I got another idea – give him MORE bubblers. I put a row of four bubblers across one half of the tank’s back wall. Eggie took to them like he had been born to fly! He would surf from bubbler to bubbler for hours. When tired, he would sink down and go into a flower pot to sleep.