STS - The Comic

Twilkitri · Post by **Twilkitri** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 6:22 pm

3 new comics up! Huzzah!

I have no idea how far behind I am... I'm afraid to work it out...

Updated some other parts of my page, too.

Twilkitri · Post by **Twilkitri** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 12:20 am

I _will_ update my site within a week. I promise. Whether it's new comics or just an aesthetic improvement, I dunno. But I'm going to update _something_.

Twilkitri · Post by **Twilkitri** » Sun Nov 24, 2002 10:32 pm

Well, I was going to make some new comics this morning...
then work jumped up and hit me in the face.
So it may take me a few days longer to update. Why does this always happen?

Twilkitri · Post by **Twilkitri** » Tue Nov 26, 2002 7:54 am

<DT updates, the universe explodes>
Yes, I finally have made a new comic! Hoolay...
The death of BasketBall Man is close at hand. Any guesses for who's next? I'll remind you of the remaining RMs:
Edit Man
Fountain Man
UnixTerminal Man

'course, a comic wasn't _only_ what I wanted to put up there. I've got heaps of stuff to work on, including:
- A 'Nostalgia' page with all my previous comics, why I stopped them, what was going to happen had I continued them.
- A Java Counter. Only problem is, I don't know if it could write to files on beyonder's computer (to keep track of what number it's supposed to be). I guess I'll have to ask him.
- Some sort of Java comic viewer, so people don't need to use the archive pages.
- Changing all the 'DarkT Software' s to 'Result 27 Software' s. What? I asked for any ideas, and no-one gave me any... or gave me anything sensible, anyways.

Oh, and do some more work on Hangman, too. I have done _some_ but not a lot.

Post by **beyonder** » Tue Nov 26, 2002 2:52 pm

yeah...u can write to files on my comp(not everwhere tho...try to stay in ur directory.....), but why would u use java (mainly a client side script) to write a counter(which needs to be a server side script)...

Post by **beyonder** » Tue Nov 26, 2002 2:56 pm

that and the server doessnt support jsp. try php.

Post by **Pez-Man** » Tue Nov 26, 2002 6:59 pm

Ew... No offense, but Result 27 software? That sounds so... yeah...

Twilkitri · Post by **Twilkitri** » Wed Nov 27, 2002 7:38 am

beyonder wrote:yeah...u can write to files on my comp(not everwhere tho...try to stay in ur directory.....), but why would u use java (mainly a client side script) to write a counter(which needs to be a server side script)...

Eh? The Java Security Manager doesn't allow applets to do very much on the client's side of things, apart from drawing to the screen. Hardly anything else apart from that and calculations... You can't read or write files on the client side, for example. As far as I know.

that and the server doessnt support jsp. try php.

Forgive me, but I don't know what jsp stands for. You mean JavaScript? I'm talking Java here, not JavaScript, and besides, it's the browser that runs the applet, not the server.
Also, I don't know php.

No comments on the comic? *sniff*

Pez-Man, you can't complain. I asked for ideas and didn't get any useful ones, so...

Post by **beyonder** » Wed Nov 27, 2002 8:28 am

jsp=JavaServer Pages... http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/ ..also to write to files on the server you need something running on the server....be it another applet(servlet) or, if you kno how to use mySQL queries you could write to a db w/ a pw, but to have a client side script write directly to files on a server = bad. for obvious reasons......how exactly were u planning to write this applet anyway?

Twilkitri · Post by **Twilkitri** » Wed Nov 27, 2002 8:49 am

JBuilder

Post by **beyonder** » Wed Nov 27, 2002 9:01 am

i meant what method u were gonna use to write to the file on the server....

Post by **Pez-Man** » Wed Nov 27, 2002 3:36 pm

I can/am complain! ...That's not right, but that's beyond the point! I liked DT Software, or DTX or something. Result DT? CDSIA?

Twilkitri · Post by **Twilkitri** » Fri Nov 29, 2002 8:19 am

beyonder wrote:i meant what method u were gonna use to write to the file on the server....

Well, I was assuming that the working directory would be the directory in which the applet's CLASS file was located, and I was going to just open the file with a FileWriter then put that into a BufferedWriter.

Pez-Man: I like DT Software too, but people already have it.

Post by **beyonder** » Fri Nov 29, 2002 4:50 pm

o....*mutter* now i gotta go make the server recognize what to do w/ class files....*/mutter*

Twilkitri · Post by **Twilkitri** » Sat Nov 30, 2002 8:02 am

Riiiight...

The CLASS file is downloaded by the browser.
The browser runs the CLASS file's applet methods in its local JVM.
The server merely provides the CLASS file. It doesn't have to recognise it.