Getting pages & switching

[michel777]

Hi Forum,

to develop a "Digital Signage" applikation we need:

1) After loading the (main) html page get all the pages (.html, .pdf, .xls, .jpg) as members of the paylist.

- Is there a way to get the appr. 15 pages into the browser (as DOM Objects) ? Or rather to load in 15 iFrames ?

2) The mentionde pages should be displayed in a certain order (in ca. 20 sec tact).

- A possible solution would be to hide / unhide. Any other wy ?

Thanks in advance

Michel

 

[Diancecht]

Do you need all pages or just one at a time? If you just need one, you can use only one iframe and change the src of it

Cheers,
Dian

 

[michel777]

Hi Dian,

thanks a lot. Yes we need because we wont wait for the next page. The application will be started wit all of documents (load once) and only certain documents will be updated.

Michel

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Your question isn't clear - are you asking IF it can be done with AJAX, or HOW it can be done?

If it's IF it can be done, then "Yes" is the answer.

If you're asking HOW it can be done, perhaps something like the jQuery "load" method might help (

http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/load).

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[michel777]

Hi Dan,

you are right, my questions were not clear.

Actually I have already successfuly loaded and handled html pages, injected into the DOM. But I have still problems with PDF: simply loading anywhere in the DOM resulted, that teh first characters (%PDF ...) appeared there.

The question is: how to "inject" a PDF documents ?

Thanksk in advance,

Michel

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Personally, for a PDF, I'd simply set the "src" attribute of an IFRAME to be the URL of the PDF.

Dan



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