Frames Based Web Pages a Problem

[Ian Johnson]

I am using Autoplay to show a corporate website at an exhibition where the client has 5 laptops not networked and not connected to the internet. He wants to be able to capture user registration data offline while they are viewing the web site. I have placed the home page of the site as a Web Browser Object on the opening page. I have left a 20 pixel gap at the bottom of the page and have place a text link to Page 2 which has a user registration form on it. The user data is exported and appended to a text file for use later. I placed a "Back" button on the registration page to take the user back to Page 1 which has the web site. It works fine for non frame pages but when I have a page with a frame structure it only returns one of the frames from the page the user was last on. I have tried to reload the home page on initialisation but this does not work. Any suggestions would be appreciated [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

[Corey]

Re: Frames Based Web Pages a Problem

Turn your "back" link into a link to your main frameset page, as it is you are only returning to the last page of the frame with the link...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[Ian Johnson]

Re: Frames Based Web Pages a Problem

Thanks for that advice. I had tried this but was still getting problems. I overcame my problem by keeping all content on one page and just hiding the web object and showing the registration form. On submitting the form I just reverse the process and allow the web object to reload the home page of the site which is not frames based. This problem is solved but I have another.

The registration form consists of seven edit fields which allow the user to enter name, address etc. I want to be able to append each users data to a comma delimited text file on the desktop of each computer. Is there a tutorial to show how this is to be done. I know I need to save the edit field data to a variable first, then export that variable to the text file but I am not sure exactly how to do this. I would also like to error check to make sure the user completes the main information.