To start: GTK code won't work via CGI*, if I understand your comments correctly. If you're trying to use GTK over the Web in any way, um, don't. :)

Action button: Again -- just don't use it. Really. I don't know what code you have that uses it, but I've never come across any Javascript that uses this "Action Button". Instead, use a link with an "OnClick", or the HTML button with same. And, of course, this is drifting somewhat off-topic...

I think you're looking for an Optimal Solution, yes? In the HTML/Javascript world, there really isn't one, esp. for interface design. You're always going to be learning more, and working through trade-offs and OS limitations and Web server quirks and programming language barriers.

If you're still trying to work out the basics of these technologies, and how they interact, I recommend more reading -- not about APIs and end solutions, but about the nuts and bolts of HTTP, HTML, Javascript, CGI, and how they all interact. You'll need some good books, really, to make it all work together in your mind; the Internet doesn't have a lot of great "deep" material on it. And when you do? A lot of this frustration you have will be lifted.

Does that make sense?







* OK, pedantically, I'm sure you could do some sort of RPC call. But you really don't want to go there at all.

----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.

In reply to Re^6: obtaining yyyy-mm-dd via a calendar object by Asim
in thread obtaining yyyy-mm-dd via a calendar object by gmacfadden

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