Re: Passing parameters from page to page in HTA app

From: Trent (notvalid_at_dontspam.com)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 08:53:53 -0500

Internet Explorer has issues with printing output from it's page which I am
sure could be corrected as I write the code but sending to a .doc file
format would allow them to be able to make edits in a better environment if
needed. I just have to learn how to output to that format.
I have sample code for doing rtf .doc files that I will be playing with.

I am only outputting to delimited text files. They did not want to use an
Access database due to previous support issues with the databases
corrupting. They actually thought that a SQL DB would be used to synch to
when back at the office but that leaves me nowhere to store data while not
netoworked so I store it in text files. One list of events, then sub
folders for each event containing an attendee list a generic itinerary that
applies to all attendees and individual itinerary files containing personal
modifications. When they are ready to print I will pull in the data and
output into a formatted file for print. This way I keep the data separate
as they will want to be able to report on it at a later time.

BTW, I found the reason it always launched in a new window was the Navigable
property was set to no. Once I changed it the pages would launch in the
same window every time. :)

"McKirahan" <News@McKirahan.com> wrote in message
news:8%Jrd.180374$HA.108290@attbi_s01...
> "Trent" <notvalid@dontspam.com> wrote in message
> news:Oe7Ml7H2EHA.4072@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > I could use all .hta files or a mix of .hta and .htm, it really does not
> > matter.
> > At the moment I have a small app that gives them a list of events. They
> can
> > add/delete from the list or select an event and select edit.
> > When they select edit it should passs them into the next portion which
> gives
> > them more info on the specified event and allows them to create a
generic
> > itinerary for that event as well as add client names to the event.
> > From that page, they can select a client name and select edit which
would
> > pass them to a third page to edit individual client itinerarys.
> >
> > Essentially I have three pages (at present anyway) that work in a top
down
> > heirarchy. I will need to pass one or two values to the newly loading
> page
> > so it knows which text file to read it's data from and I will need a
> generic
> > menu that will allow them to go back to the home page or whatever.
> > I assume that html links would do basic navigation for me.
> > I would not be directly launching external applications, just those
pages
> > that are part of this app.
> > I do have to figure out how I am going to format the output which may
> > involve formatting the collected data and outputting it as a .doc file.
> > Otherwise I have to try doing all formatting within my own app and
> worrying
> > about getting margins and everything set correctly for web printing and
> that
> > limits what the client can do if they want to tweak the way it looks on
> the
> > fly.
> >
> > So much effort for what will be a little used program. But it generates
> > itineraries for major board member events so it will be high profile.
>
> [snip]
>
> To summarize: Event List => Event Info => Client Page.
>
> Regarding formatting: what's wrong with a Web page?
>
> How are you storing your data: database or text file?
>
>

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