Hi Wolfram,
I hear where you're coming from; I tried to work through this book
once before, but ran into all these little problems and eventually
lost interest. But I am not as big a fan of the Quickpro book as
some others are. I actually want a book I can work through from step
to step, and I found out (after much confusion) that although that
book *looks* like it would work that way, it actually doesn't and
isn't meant to.
I do find the Mendis book to be seriously lacking, though, in
clarity, in explanations of why things are done the way they are, and
in teaching style.
Someday Chuck's beginner book will come out and all will be right
with the world. :)
thanks,
janine
On Jun 29, 2006, at 12:35 AM, Wolfram Stebel wrote:
Am 29.06.2006 8:57 Uhr schrieb "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" unter
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Hi Janine,
sorry for blaming Ravi Mendis, but simply drop that book. It does
not realy
explain the things you need to do, it is not a good reference
because you
need to work through the whole tutorials to understand small
things, and
nobody needs an application "Dynamic movies" :-)
And in fact, it focuses sometimes on extraordinary hacks without
making them
too clear.
Drop it. That helped me.
I have another beginners book instead, Visual Quickpro Guide
WebObjects 5
(Josh Marker). It helped me a lot more.
After this try Practical WebObjects (Hill, Mallais), that's in
depth...
Regards
Wolfram
I'm not sure if the author is being unclear or if I'm being dense,
but I'm stuck and hoping someone can help me out here:
First problem:
We created a new project, which is supposed to become the splash page
for the Dynamic Movies app. It has an image, and an image map hand-
typed in to Main.html which looks like this:
<map name="splashmap">
<area shape=rect coords="191,137,259,174" href="http://www.dell.com";>
<area shape=rect coords="0,80,215,159" href="http://www.apple.com";>
<area shape=rect coords="146,52,253,97" href="http://www.ibm.com";>
<area shape=rect coords="204,89,265,128" href="http://www.sun.com";>
</map>
Then we created a component called WOArea.
He lost me completely at the top of page 44:
"Now in the Main component, replace each of the image map area
elements with WOArea dynamic elements."
I have no idea how to do that. I can add four WOAreas to the page,
of course, but how to make them replace the image map? Not a clue.
I tried looking at his source code but as usual all traces of this
intermediate step are gone, so it didn't help.
Second problem:
I tried to keep going but got stuck again right away at the top of p.
45:
"So create a new component called WOMappedRollover. Cut and paste
the elements for the image map (that is the script, the image map
itself, and the image) into the WOMappedRollover component."
Script? Eh what? I have no idea what he's talking about, and once
again the sample code fails me because there doesn't seem to be any
trace of this step left in it. Or I'm just not seeing it because I
don't know what he's referring to.
Has anyone before me figured these out? Or am I just showing my
ignorance?
Thanks,
janine
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