Ebel Dynamic

so ..

to summarize.

1/ no more need to refresh the frontpage to see if a reply has been posted on forum/wall/comments .. or to see who is online ... they will update automatically after X seconds (so far been set to 20sec).

2/ you can now enqueue songs in the flash player, so if you wish to listen to multiple songs, just click on them one at a time to add them to the flash-playlist

How did you manage to keep the handle? Through a session?

Good job anyway.

Had to laugh at the Harpic codename :)

no

because it's not a handle like an ascii name, it's more like an address pointer ...

and you just can't seem to save that..

What i do, is use a kind of 'bug/feature' in javascript open window :)

when you do a window.open you give a window handle. if that window already exists, it's re-used (and the handle is returned). But then the window changes url .. which is no good .. but now, if you window.open with an empty url ... the url is not changed, and the handle is returned !!!

now the rest of the code just figures out if the window existst or not and is indeed showing the flashplayer, and then once handle is available sends the enqueue command to the flash :)

var newwindow = '';

function dothis()
{
		
		win = popitup('');
		var wurl = ''+win.location;
	if(wurl.indexOf('mp3') == -1)
	{
	        win.location ='/flash_mp3.php?song=<?=$_GET["song"]?>';
	
	}
	else
		win.check_enqueue('<?=$_GET["song"]?>');

return false;
}

function popitup(url) {
	if (!newwindow.closed && newwindow.location) 
	{
		newwindow.SendDataToFlashMovie('<?=$_GET["song"]?>');
	}
	else 
	{
		newwindow=window.open(url,'flash_player','height=250,width=600');
		if (!newwindow.opener) newwindow.opener = self;
	}
	if (window.focus) 
	{
		newwindow.focus()
	}

	
	
	return newwindow;
}

Yes the code is not the best in the world .. popitup should be defined inside dothis() :) etc etc.... and the var wurl = ''+win.location; it's the only way i found to convert win.location to a string value ... somehow the (string) win.location didn't work ...

so i'm using a string addition to force the intepreter to do a type change ... yuck yeah i'm showing the code for those who wanna see it ..

it's javascript .. it's not hard to find in the webpage code :)

Yeaaaah ! Long life to king Zark ^^

Nice challenge men !

very nice

an early version of the 'song enqueue' existed more or less ...

but it consisted of polling ... (the flash asked the server every X seconds if a new song was to be added in playlist) and songs where added using server-side session variables

But in most cases this would just add load to the server, as 99% of those requests would be useless (in rare cases a track would be enqueued). So i had to use an 'interrupt' type call :)

so first challenge was communication from JS to Flash then communicating from another page then communicating from another page when that parent page changed ..

last point was the toughest, and took a while to figure out and a lot of googling, to finally find no one on google with a solution ^^

Great work, everything works fine!! Makes E-bel very userfriendly thx!! :))

ZARk for president

Originally posted by : ELFENKOMMANDO

ZARk for president word!

He-Man!

Zark is the MASTER OF THE UNVERSE!

Respect... these changes definately kick ass!!!

Not only Skeletors by mine too! ;)