1. Is it possible to open a modal dialog box to display an html page from an eBook?
2. Is it possible to pop-up a window with an html page from an eBook that has HTML high security?
3. Need more info about the {user} variable (The 5 digit user ID of the current user). a) Is this a unique number for each ebook? b) In what situations can this be used? c) How is generated?
Thanks Carlos
Posted on: 2:33 pm on February 6, 2003
EBookCompiler
1. I don't think so, at least not without programming the API. But may be it is possible using JavaScript
2. Maybe with some trickery
When you pop a window, it actually is your browser not part of the ebook that pops. The browser doesn't know about high security, hence the problem
The solution is to make the file you pop available to the browser - use low security - or pop a web URL - or *maybe* you can trick the browser to view a file with a non-HTML extension, or copy that particular file with a non-HTML extension (in the ebook) to a file with an HTML extension say in a temp folder and pop that
3. a. No the ESBN is unique for each book c. it is a 5 digit ID to identify the computer. However it is not 100% unique, as 2 computers can have the same ID. We generate it based on the computer (actually it is bigger than 5 digits to start, then we do some maths to transform into the range 10000-99999) b. We use it in our license system. We also used it when we wanted some persistence with an ebook linking to a web application. Our trick was to pass in the URL of various links to web pages/scripts. We combined it with IP of the user (collected by the server), and this gives a very unique ID, which can point to the data for that user. I guess if you want a semi-unique number, that's what it's for.
Posted on: 12:02 am on February 7, 2003
Carlos
Quote: from EBookCompiler on 12:02 am on Feb. 7, 2003[br] [...] - or *maybe* you can trick the browser to view a file with a non-HTML extension, or copy that particular file with a non-HTML extension (in the ebook) to a file with an HTML extension say in a temp folder and pop that
Sunnil, thanks for the tip. It should work.
BTW, modals work by using javascript. My question was not complete. I was thinking in pop-up a modal with a high security level. But with the trick it should also work.
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