[PLUG] Small script webapps

Neal nsedell at gmail.com
Sun Dec 13 06:58:40 UTC 2009


On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Joe Pruett <joey at clean.q7.com> wrote:
>> Speaking of apache/HTML, I would really appreciate it if someone could
>> point me to the HTML CGI verbiage needed to call a function to return
>> the _initial_ contents of a user-changeable text/numeric box. I found
>> many many functions for calling a function on this, that, the other
>> thing, butterfly flapping its wings in Central Park, etc. etc. etc.
>> NOTHING that would provide initialization at runtime (initial page
>> load) via a CGI call, static HTML page.
>>
>> I looked around for a couple weeks on and off and then gave up. What
>> did I miss? Shirley there must be something...
>
> well, what you describe can't be done.  but maybe you're not describing
> what you want adequately?  you can possibly accomplish your goal by
> putting html fields of type hidden into your form to track the original
> values of things?

Ok, say you want to do a debugger using a web browser. You have a box
with, say, memory or register contents. How do you initialize that box
with what's currently in the item of interest?

NealS



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