am i in the right place here?

[cloudbase]

Hello, any help is greatly appreciated. I’m a amateur just trying to learn.

I have a website up and running that I manage using NetObjects Fusion Essentials. The site only displays pages with no viewer interaction.

Now I want to install a simple chat where people write something – its stored on the server – retrieved and displayed when the post message button is pushed. Viewers will see the posts and be able to comment and post their reply.
In livecode I wrote a little program that does this (flyline.exe). It works and is saved as an exe file.

My problem is ‘how do I get flyline.exe into NetObjects’?

Is my approach correct?

[FourthWorld]

My problem is ‘how do I get flyline.exe into NetObjects’?

Have you considered asking your question in the NetObjects forum?

[cloudbase]

Thanks for the reply,

Yes I have posted on NetObjects forum the following: (no replies yet)

Running Fusion Essentials
Click to insert ActiveX control - drag rectangle – Insert ActiveX Control dialog opens – select LiveCode Player Control – check box Set Codebase – press OK
Result Dialog Box message – Unable to insert the specified control
Can someone please help with this problem?

I guess the question I have here is weather my approach is the correct choice. I don't have html, java, php.....etc experience but I have no problem learning what's necessary.

Thanks, Ron

[mwieder]

Ron-

The chat standalone you created is *not* an ActiveX control. I don't know what a "LiveCode Player Control" is, but I can pretty much guarantee that it also isn't an ActiveX control.

If you created an exe by making a LiveCode standalone application, it will have to be downloaded to the user's computer and run from there. That's not particularly a LiveCode thing, it's the way web things work.

You *can* deploy to the web using LiveCode's standalone builder, but you'll have to figure out yourself how to take the generated html code and the revlet and insert it into NetObjects Fusion. Maybe someone else here has some experience with this, but that's outside my so-called expertise.

[cloudbase]

Thanks,
"you'll have to figure out yourself how to take the generated html code"

does this mean I can write in LiveCode and view (generate) html code?

Thanks for your paitence with someone who doesn't know anything.

Ron

[mwieder]

If you look at the standalone builder, there's an option to deploy to the web. That will create a "revlet", or whatever it's being called these days, and an html page, and launch it in your browser to test it. If you look at the code in the html page, there's a section that you can extract and embed into another web page along with the revlet itself.

Or modify the html a bit and upload the page and revlet to your server and just make a link to that page from your Fusion code. That's the way I'd go if you don't need the stack to be surrounded by other stuff on the web page. It means fiddling with the html code by hand either way - there's a learning curve involved, but it's not too bad.

[cloudbase]

Thats it -- Thanks -
I will work on this for awhile....

Appreciate all the help and quick replies

Ron