Hi, a general question really about email address books. I've got a few different email accounts and I want to try and keep all the address books synchronised, but doing it manually can take hours!!! especially as i only get round to it once or twice a year. Does anyone know of any software, or have any ideas of how i could keep things synchronised, i.e. search for multiple entrys for the same person and merge/delete entries, maybe using some sort of master file? Bearing in mind that i use a combination of web-mail and mail provided from my IsP etc.... Any ideas would be greatly appreciated Thanks Andy

Hi, I've been coding visual c++ for a while now, and made a couple of nice little MFC applications. However I have a kind of general question about the next stage. I can get the applications to work from visual C++ but obviously that's not ideal for distribution, so my question is (sorry if this is stupid) 1. What exactly is the purpose of an installer i.e. install shield etc, as when I build my app in c++ i just get an exe file, no changes in registry or other files?(don't think my question is well worded :|) 2. Where do i get one/ how do i implement it. Thanks Andy ps another question if i want to read a particular file format into my application say *.jpg for example, how can i do this, surely I don't have to write the code from scratch or do I have to buy a proprietary library?

Here is my problem from another forum I tried: I tried IFRAME and it worked with a bit of fiddling, but I don't like the extra scroll bars it adds, and I think that it only works in IE...... though not sure. I read in another post about server side includes, but I don't know any php, and wasn't sure if I should do it that way. I managed to load the page using Java Script like this

#menu
{
position:relative;
background :#66CCCC;
float:left;
width:20%;
height:100%;
}
#content
{
position:relative;
float:left;
height:100%;
width:80%;
}

menu goes here

parent.location.href='../html/ch1/notes/Unit1a.htm';

(I put another post about thisJ) However I have the problem with the file being over writing the menu, I tried changing to relative positioning with little luck. What I want to do is have two columns side by side, one menu and on the right a dynamically loaded html page. I am writing some javascript to automatically generate a menu of links from the heading tags in my html page, that is the eventual aim. So that whatever page is loaded a set of hyperlinks will be put on the left. The idea is to save me time in making up a menu though it hasn't worked so far :-(. BTW, is there a way to specify a fixed column width for one column, and have another expand to fill the rest of the screen cf frames?? Cheers Andy

is there a way to load an html document into another one using java script?

How can I force a browser to use a particular character encoding set? I have made all the meta tags in my HTML files specify utf-8 for the charset property but I still seem to open them as western 1? Andy

can I do something like document.write(../../xxxx.html) ?

Is there a way to load an html page using DHTML. I have lots of HTML source already written, and I'd like to have a page with the following etc etc...

menu content here

load a previously written html document here

Is this possible? andy

Hello, I am trying to write a simple javascript function. I want to read in the values of heading nodes in an HTML document and then make a list of them. I want to then use this to make a template which contains a menu which can update the navigation bar depending on the html content. the code I used is

var headings1 = getElementsbyType('h1');

then I tried to access the element to produce a list using a for loop

var temp ="<p>"
for (i=0; i

to make a list something like

NO. of H1s
firstchild
secondchild
etc..
No. of H2s
etc etc..

I''m quite new to DHTML, can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong?
thanks(or suggest a good tutorial?)

Andy

that would be cool, I'd like to see how you did it. thanks Andy

How can I define multiple tags of span, so that I might higlight some text bold and some red for example? can I do it in a linked in style sheet or do I need to define it at that point in the Html code?

Hi again, I had a play around with it, and it looks like the style sheets get overridden by the html tags already present. i.e. if I do something like

this is a title

and the style sheet is set up for h1 without underline I still get underlined text. So I've taken to just commenting out the tags for the moment. One thing I would like to know though, is how is it possible to make pages that use CSS compatible with older browsers, if it isn't possible to have a set of default HTML tags in the document when no CSS support is available or have I completely missed the point? thanks andy

Hi there, I am developing a website and I am quite new to using CSS. I already have a lot of HTML to change/update that I think someone generated using word or frontpage. I want to apply styles to the standard heading tags h1 etc.. Can I do this but leave all the old etc tags in the html file or do I have to remove them(There are hundreds). I was trying to work out if there is an order of precedence for the tags, but I can't seem to work it out. sorry if this is a stupid question.

Yes that covers it thanks. :-)

Can somebody explain to me what a callback function is ? is it just a recursive function or have I missed the point? Andy

is there any way to detect that a particular button is being held down. i.e. on the WM_LBUTTONDOWN message, how can I check wether a particular button is pressed in a similar way to say a checkbox? Andy ps what notification message do you mean?

hmm tried what you said, what I really want is this, and I couldn't get it to work. I want to execute one bit of code when the button is pressed and then another when it is released. How can I do that? Andy

How can I tell wether a button control is being held down or not? I can't seem to use the flag from WM_LBUTTONDOWN because I don't have the same flag parameter passed into my button handler Any ideas? Andy

Nice one many thanks Andy

hmm yes I think there is a zero on the end of the first string. How can I get around this?

what do you mean?