Re: Ideas please!!

2006-09-15 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 15 September 2006 01:13, Denny Valliant wrote: > I'm just bummed that another critical bug was found in flash > player 8. That was one of the main reasons I'd held off so long > in going flash... also one of the reasons I avoided JS for so > long, but... oh well. If you refuse to use an

Re: Ideas please!!

2006-09-14 Thread Doug Brown
is especially true at snapnames where they continue auctions like this. - Original Message - From: "Andrew Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:35 PM Subject: Re: Ideas please!! > Does this auction have proxy votin

Re: Ideas please!!

2006-09-14 Thread Andrew Scott
Does this auction have proxy voting? I would not be worried about redisplaying the time, if it does as people who use proxy voting are never at the screen anyway. Have you tried eBay and see what they do? ~| Introducing the Fus

Re: Ideas please!!

2006-09-14 Thread Denny Valliant
On 9/14/06, Che Vilnonis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ajax or Flex might work. Flex would be perfect for this, as you can do real-time push stuff with it. I'm just bummed that another critical bug was found in flash player 8. That was one of the main reasons I'd held off so long in going flas

RE: Ideas please!!

2006-09-14 Thread Che Vilnonis
Ajax or Flex might work. -Original Message- From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:15 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Ideas please!! I have been trying to fugure something out that is simply eluding me. My app is an auction, and what I am trying to do is

Re: Ideas please!!

2006-09-14 Thread Paul Giesenhagen
I don't believe you can show realtime without refreshing the page and even then it is not really real time it becomes history from the refresh. One thing of note, the way you are updating the time is by a scheduled task every 1 minute? Wouldn't it be easier to update the tables and times when s

RE: Ideas please!!

2006-09-14 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
You can write a page that has nothing but the time displayed on it for an auction based on a url variable passed to it. Then use javascript's httprequest to read that page asynchronously and update the time the user sees. (aka AJAX) As for increasing the time... why not just do that when people bi

RE: Ideas please!!

2006-09-14 Thread Snake
When the bid is placed, update the auction closing time at the same time, presuming the page will refresh after the bid is placed anyway, and will thus show the new time. Russ -Original Message- From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 September 2006 14:15 To: CF-Talk Subject

Re: Ideas please!!

2006-09-14 Thread Richard Dillman
place the time in an iframe with a meta refresh set at 15 seconds On 9/14/06, Che Vilnonis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ajax or Flex might work. > > -Original Message- > From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:15 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Ide

RE: Ideas please!!

2006-09-14 Thread Andy Matthews
Doug. Running a scheduled task once a minute would likely be rather intensive to the server. You're going to know the auction id when someone places a bid, why not just do an update to the database table at that point? Also, you could use AJAX to update the ending time. -Original Message--