Word Art

[Jeff]

Ok. Is there a way to use word art, and insert asp inside of it?? for
example... i have it set what i want to do.. but want to have the text
display whatever the variable is.. such as
<%=teams.fields.item("team_name_visit").value%>

is this possible??

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

TBMK no




| Ok. Is there a way to use word art, and insert asp inside of it?? for
| example... i have it set what i want to do.. but want to have the text
| display whatever the variable is.. such as
| <%=teams.fields.item("team_name_visit").value%>
|
| is this possible??
|
|

 

[Jeff]

grumbles and mutters stuff under breath..lol

so unless i write script to dynamically create dhtml on the fly... there is
nothing i can do??

 

[Murray]

What is it you want to do?

 

[Jeff]

ok... in word art.. you create words or whatever..and i believe it makes it
either java or dhtml. i want to be able to ass some script in there..so it
will make the txt whatever the variable is
but since the script for the word art is grey in FP.. it won't let me add a
variable.

 

[Ronx]

Word Art, along with all other objects produced from the
FrontPage/Office drawing tools, is VML graphics - not DHTML, not Java,
not JavaScript.
VML graphics are only visible in IE5.5 and later, running on Windows.
Other browsers either see nothing, or a poor quality down-level .gif
produced when the page containing the VML is saved (if you have set
that option).

Since nearly 25% of browsers in use today are not IE5.5 or later on
Windows, your proposal may be impractical, even if it is possible.

 

[Jeff]

That could very well be the case. I would, however, still like to know if it
is possible. I am using this for my team site. And I do know that everyone
there (50 something members) has the IE that is needed to view it. As I have
used vml before for stuff.(thanks for letting me know what it is).
thanks for the info

Jeff

 

[Murray]

Server-scripting is parsed and executed by the server before the page ever
gets to the browser. That being the case, you can put server scripted
operations ANYWHERE on your page as long as you identify them properly.

So, yes, you could add VBScript markup inside your word art code.

Notwithstanding that, you may need to dynamically adjust some of the vml
coordinate declarations, and perhaps even other elements of the vml. So
you'd better know your vml syntax and usage pretty well.

 

[Jeff]

lol.. thx for the info....and since I didn't even know it was called vml,
that would pretty much show my lack of knowledge for it.
Guess it is time to study up.
thanks again

 

[Murray]

Sorry I couldn't point you to specific resources. I'm sure that there's
more than you want to read at the MSDN site.... 8)

 

[Jeff]

Ok. Along the same subject sortof, is there a way to put asp scripts into a
hotspot box??
I am thinking the same applies, since the hotspot is created by a webbot,
thus meaning I can't do it?

 

[Murray]

Inta a hotspot box? Whachu mean?

 

[Jeff]

Ok. you click on a pic you have in a cell, and in the pic properties, you
click the A meaning txt. THen a box appears, and you can put txt in that box
OVER the pic. THe problem I am running into, is that box is a webbot, and
won't allow me to put any asp in it.

 

[Ronx]

No, this cannot be done. When you add text to an image using the
image toolbar the text is converted to an image (stored in the
_overlay folder) and overlaid onto the original image. The original
image is then replaced on the page by the composite (which is stored
in the _derived folder). Since these are all images produced at
design time, dynamic text is impossible. Note that all images are
converted to .gifs, which may result in loss of quality.

 

[Jeff]

true... i have actually looked at ASPJpeg coding, and played around with it.
This gave me the result I was looking for.
You are correct, it had to have an input pic, then it applied the script,
and produced an output pic.
I was able to incoorperate my DB results into this as well, so it now creats
the Image on the fly as needed.
Thanks for the reply.
Jeff