We have the modal dialog, that's not difficult. What we havn't been able to figure out is bluring/dimming the web page (excluding the dialog).

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Hi, Wanted to know if anybody has any idea on how to do the following. It probably involves javascript and css. 1) On a web page we want to show a dialog (for capturing/alerting purposes). 2) When the dialog is to appear we want to dim the web page (a nice shade of grey) and make everything on the page disabled. We got this idea from google. Google uses it in various places with the result of not being able to do anything on the page until the dialog is closed. Has anybody any idea on how to dim the page (not only the background but the whole page). This would prob make a good article. Cheers, Tal

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Unfortunately, most scientific journals target people that already know Latex. I am trying to find an "untapped audience". CP has told me that because it is a scripting language, they will accomodate the article series. So I will publish it here and see what the response is. I am only trying to pass my knowledge around.

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Thanks to most of you for communicating on this thread. CodeProject has advised me that, currently, there is no place (category) for the proposed article series. However, they will be adding a category to accommodate articles like these. Thanks CP :-D They also advised me to begin the article series. Thanks all for your input. I will also include (somewhere) in the article series about using wysiwyg editors that use Latex. Since this brings out heated debates I thought it better to cover both sides of the coin. Thanks and I'll check you guys around CP. :cool:

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I can only assume by your lengthy argument that you have never performed any worthwhile research (and if you have) never had it published.

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And that seems reasonable to you? It's the journal's business to typeset things, not the author's. Meaningful submissions scribbled on a napkin should be acceptable - otherwise, we might miss something really important from somewhere "outside the box". It's just plain wrong to burden genius with bureaucracy.

Journals like ACM receive thousands of papers and articles for publishing and so it is unreasonable to request them to typeset it for you. If you had to submit some report to your boss you wouldn't submit it via napkin! You have a point in the fact that having to typeset your work yourself is cumbersome but if it is your work, you have a responsibility to typeset it yourself. The general consensus ammong ALL researchers today is that presenting your work is just as important as doing the work. If you have put all this effort into discovering something new but cannot communicate it effectively then there is no point in even researching in the first place. Latex has it's place in the world (whether you like it or not) and yes I do have a vested intrest in it as do at least a million other people around the world.

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Thanks. You are probably one of the only people in the forums that can give a good, straight answer without all the extra BS. Yeah, perhaps CP is not the best place for these articles. I wasn't sure, hence the original point to this thread. I just thought that since it is a scripting language that maybe it would fit somewhere here. I'm not sure where else I could submit :confused:

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Our courses are of the very theoretical type and often require our students to perform mathematical calculations, make observations and present those back to us. While it is theoretically unecessary for first years, it becomes quite necessary in the postgraduate degrees and since we hope that at least some of our students will make it that far, we decided to get them used to Latex.

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How did Einstein manage? Newton? da Vinci? Euclid?

Academic research, these days, has conformed to a standard in terms of reporting the results of the research. All major journals (ACM, IEEE, CSJSA, etc) require submitted documents to be typeset in Latex. If they are not then they don't even look at the documents.

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Please give me examples of the kinds of thoughts that can be easily and effectively expressed using Latex

In my area of research (Computational Molecular Biology, Pattern Recognition and Image/Signal Processing) I sometimes have to present work that requires complex statistical results and modeling data. While there are wysiwyg editors that can typeset this, Latex is the only one that has become a worldwide standard specifically designed for typesetting this.

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OK, new question. If I were to write this article series, inwhich category should it be placed?

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OK guys, sheesh :) OK, if you were to compare typesetting with Latex to creating an HTML page: You have plenty wysiwyg editors for creating web pages in HTML. So much so that anybody can put together a web page without knowing a stitch of HTML. However, if you want to then add more complex features using javascript, you wouldn't get very far without knowing HTML. If you wanted to change a picture every 3 seconds (for example), you would struggle. Similarly, typesetting can be done with any wysiwyg editor (free or not, makes no difference). If, however, you wanted to change/add something that the wysiwyg editor did not support you would either struggle or be unable to. You may or may not agree with the idea of scripting a document but whether you like it or not, Latex is used worldwide, mostly by academic institutes and research organisations (even Google). Almost every faculty, school and deparment at my university offers a course in Latex. In our School of Computer Science, it is the first course required for the undergraduate degree. The purpose of this article series would be to teach Latex from the ground up (as you would with HTML, say). It may seem difficult for some to understand the need for Latex but coming from an academic and research background, I couldn't get by without it.

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Sorry, I was referring to accessing the query string varaibles. I don't think there is any way to access session variables across web applications. ASP.NET registers the session variables with the application so each application has it's own variables. I just use query strings cause it's easier.

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If you passed the varaible as: http://ServerName/AliasName/FileName.aspx?name=value Then, in C# you could access the variable 'name' as: Request["name"] This returns the string 'value' (always a string!!!)

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Perhaps even include AJAX integration for seemless refreshing (like Google does) :)

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Another thing, if you do any search on Google Scholar[^], any new document you download would have been written in Latex. The scope of Latex is huge in the academic fields and so anybody attempting to publish an article relating to research conducted or discoveries made require the authors to know Latex.

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True, I (as most of you) prefer wysiwyg apps. The current version of Latex (Latex 2e) does not directly support wysiwyg but there are applications that are wysiwyg which use Latex as a backend. These are also free (eg: Lyx[^]). Further, Latex 3 is currently in development that does support wysiwyg editors. I have taught Latex at our university to the first years and the first question (always) is "why should we learn it when we could just use Word?". I also felt the same (when I was their age :)) but now I struggle to use anything but Latex (even Word) to write up documents. Many people are like that for example, some people feel more comfortable typing up an HTML document by source than by wysiwyg. Latex provides far more than is available in, say Word or Open Office. It is free and comes by default with most Linux and Mac installations. Windows versions are also free with many wysiwyg tools available for creating mathematical formulas, graphics and presentations. There is also an article on CP that uses Latex to create images for web pages: http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/Eq2Img.asp[^] Latex is not difficult to learn but takes time because there is alot of features avaliable. If anybody wants an example of a document created in Latex, email me at tal@corpkey.net and I will send you a pdf with an explanation of the document.

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If you could find a way of discussing (by article) the concept of concurrency (and multithreading) for Real Time applications, I think that would be welcomed.

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Now there's good boy! :)

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And what better way to exercise then to ... :->

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Well, it seems most people's opinion is that there is extra nastiness. The posters may or may not deserve it. I think that if you want to be nasty then just add a ':)' after the message. That will make even the worst of replies seem nice :suss:

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I think that if somebody posts their message in the wrong forum she/he won't get the reply they wanted. That is what they deserve for posting in the wrong forum. Other people could post him/her to tell them they are in the wrong stinking forum, but in a nice stinking way. :)

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Yes. It is available in the Visual Studio's HTML Controls (toolbox). When you add it just remember to make it runat=server. When the page postbacks you can access the file by fileUpload1.postedFile, if i'm not mistaken.

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