Re: Alert component

2008-02-08 Thread Don L
Thank you, Josh, isaac and Will, Yeah, javascript approach would be more efficient performance-wise, and yet as issac so elegantly put it, Flash or Flex or Air as Will pointed out, would be more appealing. My limited experience with Flex suggests that its loading is just too slow or because as

RE: Alert component

2008-02-08 Thread Brad Wood
dmit, this is nothing I've done, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. ~Brad -Original Message- From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 5:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Alert component Someone else might be able to shed more light, but is

RE: Alert component

2008-02-08 Thread Will Swain
Someone else might be able to shed more light, but is this something you could use AIR for? I've not played with it myself yet, haven't had time. Could an AIR app handle this kind of thing? Will -Original Message- From: Don L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 February 2008 21:53 To: C

Re: Alert component

2008-02-08 Thread s. isaac dealey
I'm fond of the notion of a .swf to handle this sort of thing myself. You might have to use the Eolas workaround hack for right now to make it work properly in IE although I heard that's supposed to end soon. I say swf because it seems like you might be able to get the functionality irrespective of

Re: Alert component

2008-02-08 Thread Josh Nathanson
You could load the user's reminder data into the client either by outputting directly into javascript, or via an ajax call...then set up a timer using setInterval that runs every minute or so to check the client time against their reminder times. If the times match up pop an alert window. -- J