From: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Subject: XML-HTML Forms local execution was RE: GNAT, LINUX, KDE
Date: 1999/11/27
Date: 1999-11-27T13:25:37+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <NBBBJNOMKDIAJALCEFIJKEMIDFAA.rleif@rleif.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 383CDA09.38067366@research.canon.com.au
From: Bob Leif
To: Geoff Bull, Preben Randhol, David Botton, et al.
Firstly, I have taken the liberty of changing the name of the subject to one
that describes the content of these postings. Over the last 5 months, I have
received numerous assurances from both my friends in the Ada community and
of at least one developer of a browser that my request was quite trivial. I
have also received many suggestions. Unfortunately, none of these were
completely working examples.
I suspect that some of the problem may be because of my lack of expertise
and also the result of differences between the various browsers and
operating systems.
The original and current problem is:
To create Ada software for processing HTML including HTML forms that
will work totally on the client computer (PC). I wish to use HTML forms as
the front-end for a project. There is obvious commercial utility to do this
under Windows 98. However, for hard real-time applications any of the
following operating systems should permit my application to be the sole
executing software on the system. This application can not be interrupted
except perhaps by CTRL-Alt_Del or the reset button. I believe that this
should be possible with DOS, Windows CE, or Linux with an Ada core. My
application could work with Windows 98 providing it could monopolize (no
interrupts) a DOS Window for my instrument controller. There is no GUI
present when my program takes data.
In order to be absolutely explicit, I have reproduced my form below.
The question is: How do I get the string named test into the Ada program,
HTML_Ada.exe? Is it via the command line or some other means?
Thank you.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>
(out2)
</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Latin1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
</head>
<body background="" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000ff"
vlink="#800080" alink="#ff0000">
<!--How do I get the string named test into the-->
<!--command line of HTML_Ada?-->
<form method="get" action="file:///C:\Ada_Work/HTML_Ada.Exe">
<textarea cols="10" rows="1" name="TEST">
hello
</textarea>
<input type="submit" value="Submit Form">
<input type="reset" value="Reset Form" name="Reset">
</form>
</body>
</html>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Bull [mailto:geoff@research.canon.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 10:41 PM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: GNAT, LINUX, KDE
Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. wrote:
> However, being neither competent in JAVA nor an expert on
> servers, I still do not know if this example is relevant to
> my question.
> This question was initially posed to Team-Ada.
> Is it feasible to create Ada software for processing HTML
> that will work totally on the client computer (PC)?
> I wish to use HTML forms as the front-end for a project.
Sorry, I had lost sight of your question.
The point of the Java web server code was merely to
support David Botton's view that embedding an http server
wouldn't be "that much work", a point of view that has been
challenged.
You need understand neither Java nor servers to see
from the Java code that an embedded http server can be very
small (even though this one can't process forms).
Geoff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-27 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-22 0:00 GNAT, LINUX, KDE Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-11-23 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-23 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-11-24 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. [this message]
[not found] ` <01bf38e6$27820850$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-11-27 0:00 ` XML-HTML Forms local execution was " Simon Wright
1999-11-27 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-28 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-11-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Jeffrey L Straszheim
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-11-28 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-11-25 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-11-29 0:00 ` GUI, XML,HTTP and ORBlets (Was Re: GNAT, LINUX, KDE) Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-29 0:00 ` GUI, HTTP and LynxOS ( Was:Re: " Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Mario Amado Alves
1999-12-08 0:00 ` GUI, HTTP and LynxOS Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Mario Amado Alves
1999-12-09 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-12-11 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-11-24 0:00 ` GNAT, LINUX, KDE Aidan Skinner
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