Feeding a bitmap to Internet Explorer

dmtelf has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How can you force an IE browser window to open with a specific bitmap in it? (I'm using Windows 95/8)

This is what I'm basically trying to do:

(1) Send bitmap to IE for displaying.
(2) Get numeric user input from web page (range 0-11).
(3) Send another bitmap to IE depending on numeric input.
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NB Each sending of a bmp to IE must not open in a new browser window. Only 1 window should be used.

I've looked around CPAN for an equivalent to Win32::DDE but can't find it.

Do any monks out there know how to do the above?

Thanks!

dmtelf

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Re: Feeding a bitmap to Internet Explorer by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 03, 2000 at 15:10 UTC
Can't you do this sort of thing with `Win32::OLE`? I don't do Windows, but I seem to remember that DDE was renamed as OLE Automation - which is what this module does. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> European Perl Conference - Sept 22/24 2000 <http://www.yapc.org/Europe/>	[reply]
Re: Feeding a bitmap to Internet Explorer by c-era (Curate) on Jul 03, 2000 at 16:46 UTC
This sound more like you want to use javascript. `<script language=javascript> url="www.mypage.com"; windowName="myName"; settings="toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar= +yes,scrollbars=yes,resizeable=yes,with=100,height=100"; myWindow = window.open(url,windowName,settings); </script>` [download] As long as you use the same window name it will reuse the window you already have open. If that window is not open it will create the window.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Feeding a bitmap to Internet Explorer by Aighearach (Initiate) on Jul 03, 2000 at 14:29 UTC
Are you sure forcing a browser window open is a friendly thing to do? I know it is precisely the feature that causes me to keep javascript turned off... Paris Sinclair \| 4a75737420416e6f74686572 pariss@efn.org \| 205065726c204861636b6572 I wear my Geek Code on my finger.	[reply]
RE: Re: Feeding a bitmap to Internet Explorer by dmtelf (Beadle) on Jul 03, 2000 at 14:43 UTC
For this particular application, it's fine to force a browser window to stay open. When the application finishes, it will close the window. All I need to do is find out how to do what I asked in the original question! :-) dmtelf	[reply]
RE: RE: Re: Feeding a bitmap to Internet Explorer by Aighearach (Initiate) on Jul 03, 2000 at 14:49 UTC
So you are saying that this isn't something already running in the browser? Perhaps I am misunderstanding your question. If you are just trying to display an image from a non-networked perl program, I would recommend using a widget set, like Tk. In addition to not using a large, bloated beast like IE for a skinny task, it also is more portable. Paris Sinclair \| 4a75737420416e6f74686572 pariss@efn.org \| 205065726c204861636b6572 I wear my Geek Code on my finger.	[reply]
Re: Feeding a bitmap to Internet Explorer by httptech (Chaplain) on Jul 03, 2000 at 15:55 UTC
I'm not clear on if you are trying to work remotely, or locally. Where are the bitmaps that you want to send to the browser; would they be on a webserver? Or on the user's hard drive? Also, getting the numeric input; would that happen in a separate browser window or would it be part of a web page containing the bitmap?	[reply]
Re: Feeding a bitmap to Internet Explorer by dmtelf (Beadle) on Jul 03, 2000 at 18:19 UTC
thanks to everyone for their comments & suggestions. Its certainly helped me consider things I hadn't thought of before. httptech - the bitmaps would eventually be stored on a webserver. the numeric options & subsequent input would ideally be done as part of the web page containing the bitmap. for now, the bitmaps are stored in a directory on the development machine. when development etc has finished they (& the perl scripts etc) would be moved onto a web server box.	[reply]