Posted: December 23 2002 at 16:44 | IP Logged

Sure, Dave... Once I either fix the GET WEATHER macro, or, fake it for a screen grab!

Tony

Posted: December 23 2002 at 23:17 | IP Logged

Okay! I fixed GET WEATHER and updated the screen grab...

http://members.telocity.com/~tonyno/phqc.gif

Now I want to make it better! It's like cleaning the house again when people are coming over!

Tony

Posted: December 30 2002 at 22:29 | IP Logged

Oh, sweetness!

I found a plug-in for my audio player (QCD) that creates a dynamic web page of the currectly playing track and playlist. My QuickControl page now shows what song is playing!

http://members.telocity.com/~tonyno/phqc.gif

All I need now is a way to select tracks from the list and I'm golden! Well, that plus a PDA and router with 802.11...

Tony

Posted: January 01 2003 at 01:07 | IP Logged

Is there a way to use sendkeys via a link, not a button, and, preserve nexturl functionality?

Posted: January 01 2003 at 02:32 | IP Logged

Tony,

Absolutely!! It's a little more tricky because you've got to encode special characters within the sendkeys to conform to http specifications, but it's not bad.  A sample would be:

<a href= "/ph-cgi/execsendkeys?nexturl=/yourpage.htm&sendkeys=ph_rtne(ph_macro('YOUR MACRO'))">Click this link</a>

The only tricky part is if your sendkeys includes any "reserved" characters.  The above example does not.  If your sendkeys includes any reserved characters, then they must be escaped with their %XX counterpart where XX is the hexadecimal representation of the character.  Sample reserved characters are: ;/?:@&=+$,

You can read more about URI escaping under RFC2396.

Hope this helps,

Dave.

Posted: January 01 2003 at 16:23 | IP Logged

Thanks, Dave! Now my media control buttons are not ugly, and, my graphic floorplan is getting closer!

Tony

Posted: January 18 2003 at 18:43 | IP Logged

Link update: My PSP Screenshot...

http://home.earthlink.net/~tonyno/phqc.gif

Tony

Posted: January 20 2003 at 23:23 | IP Logged

Yet another update...

http://home.earthlink.net/~tonyno/phqc-frames.gif

I'm moving in a bit of another direction, but, having trouble with frames (I know, I know, don't use frames).

Tony

Posted: January 21 2003 at 10:40 | IP Logged

Tony,

I think it looks good.  I actually use frames in my own website.  I have a frame which displays the webcam image, a frame to control the switching between webcams, and a frame that contains the PowerHome main page.

Dave.

Posted: January 21 2003 at 14:03 | IP Logged

Well, then, maybe you can answer this question... 

Have you ever had trouble with a frame's target being itself? In my screenshot, the left pane is giving an error when using the gv function you mentioned in the PSP thread. I'm guessing it has to do with the target.

Tony

Posted: January 21 2003 at 17:00 | IP Logged

Tony,

I think I found the gv function you're referencing.  It's on this same thread on page 1.  I don't see the actual code for the gv function though unless Im missing something. 

In any event, I don't see where it should cause a problem with frames unless the HTML is specifically coded to act upon a different frame.  Each frame is treated independently as if it were its own browser.

If you're interested, post or email me the HTML and I'll take a look at it and see what I can turn up.

Dave.

Posted: January 21 2003 at 17:28 | IP Logged

I just found an html frame tag that may fix it (target="_self"). I'll try it tonight.

Tony

PS: Have you started on the PSP "gallery" yet?

Posted: January 21 2003 at 21:10 | IP Logged

It wasn't the tag; I left out a critical <form> hunk... All is well!

Tony

Posted: January 22 2003 at 09:35 | IP Logged

Tony,

Glad to hear it was something simple.

Haven't started the PSP gallery yet, but will be doing it very soon .

Dave.

Posted: January 24 2003 at 20:37 | IP Logged

Dave,

Slightly OT here, but...

Is there a way to make a function with a PSP substitution? I have the same string used many, many times in my Devices frame, and the only change is the X-10 address (like on the main PH web page). As I'm developing this, one change turns into a lot of work!

String:

<% case(ph_getx10stat("A",10) when 0 then "Unknown" when 1 then '<font color="#C0C0C0">Off' when 2 then case(round(ph_getx10level("A",10),0) when 0 then '<font color="#C0C0C0">Dim' when 100 then 'On' else  "L:" + string(round(ph_getx10level("A",10),0)))) %>

Thanks!

Posted: January 24 2003 at 22:08 | IP Logged

Tony,

Well after a bit of thinking, Ive come up with a way to possibly make it a little better.

First Ive created a macro and called if PSP1.  Its detailed below:

10   Set System   [TEMP1]   ph_rtne(ph_setvar_s(1,1,left(ph_getvar_s(2,1),1)) + ph_setvar_s(1,2,mid(ph_getvar_s(2,1),2))) + case(ph_getx10stat(ph_getvar_s(1,1),ph_getvar_n(1,2)) when 0 then "Unknown" when 1 then '<font color="#C0C0C0">Off' when 2 then case(round(ph_getx10level(ph_getvar_s(1,1),ph_getvar_n(1,2)),0) when 0 then '<font color="#C0C0C0">Dim' when 100 then 'On' else  "L:" + string(round(ph_getx10level(ph_getvar_s(1,1),ph_getvar_n(1,2)),0))))

Then, from within your PSP, you would replace your code with:

<%ph_rtne(ph_setvar_s(2,1,"A10") + ph_macro("PSP1")) + ph_getvar_s(2,1)%>

It's mostly your code with just a little extra.

This type of thing will be MUCH easier in the next release as their is a new formula function that allows parameter passing and returning a value.  In the next release, your PSP code will look like:

<% ph_macrowithparmreturn("PSP1","A",1,0,0,0) %>

Hope this helps,

Dave.

Posted: January 25 2003 at 09:38 | IP Logged

Dave,

Great! I'll try that and wait for the next release! It just keeps getting better!

Although, I guess I'm really looking for a way to generate variable-length html.

Tony

Posted: January 25 2003 at 11:28 | IP Logged

Something must have gone awry... The macro returns "A10".

Tony

Posted: January 25 2003 at 20:47 | IP Logged

Tony,

Yep, I don't know where my brain was...when I called the PSP1 macro, the [TEMP1] variable was passed to it as a separate copy.  When the macro was done, that version of the [TEMP1] variable was destroyed so you were left with the PSP formula version unchanged at "A10".  I fixed it by using a [GLOBAL1] system variable instead.  It's posted below:

10     Set System     [GLOBAL1]     ph_rtne(ph_setvar_s(1,1,left(ph_getvar_s(3,1),1)) + ph_setvar_s(1,2,mid(ph_getvar_s(3,1),2))) + case(ph_getx10stat(ph_getvar_s(1,1),ph_getvar_n(1,2)) when 0 then "Unknown" when 1 then '<font color="#C0C0C0">Off' when 2 then case(round(ph_getx10level(ph_getvar_s(1,1),ph_getvar_n(1,2)),0) when 0 then '<font color="#C0C0C0">Dim' when 100 then 'On' else  "L:" + string(round(ph_getx10level(ph_getvar_s(1,1),ph_getvar_n(1,2)),0))))

The corrected PSP is:

<%ph_rtne(ph_setvar_s(3,1,"K1") + ph_macro("PSP1")) + ph_getvar_s(3,1)%>

I even tested it this time to verify it worked .

Hope this helps,

Dave.