RE: [Boston.pm] sending a user to the middle of a page from a form post

2005-03-08 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 15:08, Tal Cohen wrote: > I am not sure if this will work, but...Try embedding an anchor tag name into > the path of the Perl CGI URL called in your FORM tag. Then, have the > Perl-CGI script embed that same anchor tag into the resulting HTML document. > What should happen is

Re: [Boston.pm] sending a user to the middle of a page from a form post

2005-03-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Sorry, I guess I wasn't quite specific enough on my description. Yeah, I know how anchor tags work. But my problem is that the the html page is being made by a cgi script. That page made by said cgi script has anchors on it. I would like to be able to have the page load to a specific anchor depe

Re: [Boston.pm] sending a user to the middle of a page from a form post

2005-03-08 Thread Duane Bronson
I know this doesn't exactly answer your question, but you could set the focus to a form element with the -onLoad argument. print start_html(-onLoad=>"document.SelectImages.elements[0].focus();"); print start_multipart_form(-name=>"SelectImages",-method=>'POST'); Perhaps instead of focus(),

[Boston.pm] [job] Perl ETL Resource through Cognizant

2005-03-08 Thread Ronald J Kimball
This is an immediate need for a contract position. Downtown Boston. The position is through Cognizant, a local offshore outsourcing company. Cognizant is working for a local financial services company to convert their financial reports from an older version of Business Objects to a newer version. T

RE: [Boston.pm] sending a user to the middle of a page from a form post

2005-03-08 Thread Tal Cohen
I am not sure if this will work, but...Try embedding an anchor tag name into the path of the Perl CGI URL called in your FORM tag. Then, have the Perl-CGI script embed that same anchor tag into the resulting HTML document. What should happen is now when you call the CGI script, the browser will kno

Re: [Boston.pm] sending a user to the middle of a page from a form post

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > Is there any way to have the content all spat out and then send some > sort of message to the browser telling it to go to a specific anchor > point on that page? Yes. The html uses a Foo non-linking anchor, e.g. Target The URL then points to th

[Boston.pm] sending a user to the middle of a page from a form post

2005-03-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
OK, so here's what we've got. We have a perl CGI that spits out a form based on some info in a db. A user will fill out that form and hit submit. the submission actually goes to the same CGI which now interprets what it needs to do (basically its handed search criteria). It then spits out a lon

Re: [Boston.pm] HTML Renderer

2005-03-08 Thread Ben Tilly
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:02:47 -0500 (EST), Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Similarly -- and this way lies madness, I admit up front -- just run the > script on a system that can use AppleScript or COM (or WSH or whatever > it is, I'm not a Windows programmer) to just automate interact

Re: [Boston.pm] HTML Renderer

2005-03-08 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 02:02:47PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Gyepi SAM wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:06:26PM -0600, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > > > You might also want to lookin into Image::Magick.> > > > Ah yes, a clue! > > > > It turns out that there is an html to

Re: [Boston.pm] HTML Renderer

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Gyepi SAM wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:06:26PM -0600, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > > You might also want to lookin into Image::Magick. It does some pretty > > impressive things and I could have sworn I read somehwere that it could do > > just that. I have used Image:Magick

Re: [Boston.pm] HTML Renderer

2005-03-08 Thread developer
I saw a reference to khtml2png on a board somewhere. I know nothing about it though. Is html to pdf, then pdf to image too much? I'm sure that would be easier (though subject to more "interpretations" of the original page). -John ___

Re: [Boston.pm] HTML Renderer

2005-03-08 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:06:26PM -0600, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > You might also want to lookin into Image::Magick. It does some pretty > impressive things and I could have sworn I read somehwere that it could do > just that. I have used Image:Magick before and it's very fun and easy. I > would

Re: [Boston.pm] HTML Renderer

2005-03-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
You might also want to lookin into Image::Magick. It does some pretty impressive things and I could have sworn I read somehwere that it could do just that. I have used Image:Magick before and it's very fun and easy. I would definitely suggest looking into it. I will too if I get some time later

Re: [Boston.pm] OT - HTTP POST question

2005-03-08 Thread Ranga Nathan
I am in the 'language boondocks ' here. I am talking about doing a POST from a mainframe language called NATURAL! Perl is available on the mainframe in the Linux or Unix Systems Services environment, neither of which interface seamlessly with the traditional z.OS environment. I am getting inter