Ok Mars, I wasnt really expecting a technical response on this particular problem yet, this post was designed to see if anyone was willing to allow me to send questions to them directly rather than having to wait for responses on here.
I dont take offence with your reply, although I dont think your opinions are correct! 1. I'd certainly love for someone to write the app for me, but im equally happy to realise that id never get anyone to do that for nothing! We actually did employ an indian development company to do this for us, but they didnt do anywhere near an acceptable job for us and that burnt most of our startup costs. I have now had to take on the job myself, and so far I feel Ive been doing a pretty good job, we are hoping to start selling V3 of the product next week! 2. I do try to read the documentation, I usually dont post onto this forum until Ive completely run out of ideas having read everything I can find out about the specific issue im trying to solve.Usually the problem is that most of the documentation and suggestions from people like youself assume a certain level of understanding of all the technologies involved, and often there are terms used, which have no meaning to me, and I then have to go and investigate those terms before i can understand the issue im reading about, often to only find that half the stuff im looking into is not relevant to what im actually trying to do. On this particular issue I am quite happily transferring data to and from the datastore (Google App Engine - which i did mention above). Im not actually 100% certain what technology terms to use to describe how im doing that bit now, I think its RPC, but i cant be sure. I took the code for the stockwatcher example and modified that to do what im doing, and some of the code from the "sticky" application (I think). I have managed to work around the above problem through my own "ingenuity" by breaking the date down for each appointment on the server side into month/day/hour/minute and then passing this as a string[][] array back to the client, where i reconstitute the date back into a date object and then apply the localisation manually. I am certain that this is a horrible way to achieve the result, but it works OK, so for now Im going to live with it. I now have a new problem (sending an HTTP request to a 3rd party website from the server rather than the client to avoid the "single- origin security restriction"). I have been trying to figure this out since about 11pm last night but have not yet looked at all online documentation and forum posts yet. I will probably post that separately later this evening as its unrelated to this thread and im not feeling hopeful about finding an easy answer to that! Thanks for your input anyway, all responses are always appreciated :D J On Sep 11, 9:56 am, mars1412 <martin.trum...@24act.at> wrote: > to me it's no surprise, that you don't get answers to a post like this > > here's my very personal opinion and I assure you, it's meant to help > and not to offend you > > my opinion after reading your post is > > 1st impression: your not looking for answers to your questions, but > for someone who will write the app. for you > > 2nd impression: you didn't really read the docs and try simple > examples of whatever technology you use. > because storing and retrieving data from whatever datastore you use > is a very basic thing to do and I can't imagine that the specific > documentation of your datastore-product does not provide information > or basic examples about this. > > so what I suggest: > * read the docs > * try some examples > * provide detailed information > e.g. what technology are you using? > GWT, GAE, HIbernate, JPA, JDO, Spring, ...? > how do you transfer data from the server to the client? > RPC, JSON, ...? > * provide specific questions about small problems and maybe > even include source-code or an errormessage > > On Sep 10, 3:03 pm,JohnVDenley<johnvden...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Is there anyone out there who would l like to help me out? Its > > ultimately a commercial product, but Im really not a programmer > > anymore, I used to know C, but all this webstuff is hurting my brain! > > > My current problem is that Ive managed to get my application to create > > entries in the datastore (I know thats a bit of a GAE area) but the > > problem Im having now is retrieving the data. Im storing an > > appointment into the datastore, but now when trying to retrieve it, I > > need to get several variables back, so far I can only get strings or > > string arrays back.But I really need to retrieve the date back now, as > > its stored as a UTC on the server, and of course that means that when > > if I pass it back as a string and parse it then the time is wrong for > > my local timezone (I know this is a horrible way to do it, but i was > > just trying to get something quick and dirty up and running, and then > > work out later how to do it properly!) > > > I have tried to change my server calls so they use a more complex data > > type (Appointment class) but the compiler is now giving me a ton of > > error messages which i dont understand (basically lots of "i cant > > resolve that type" kinds of messages) > > > Im a bit lost and could use some more expert help with this, but cant > > seem to find anyone willing to put in a bit of time and effort to help > > me out without wanting payment!!! > > > Can anyone help me please?! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. 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