ATTN: Brad - Link of the day
Monday, July 30, 2001 by AJCrowley | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Hey,
I was looking at the DX plugin examples, yet another item to the ever growing list of why I can't put off learning c++ (I've successfully put it off for about 8 years now), and I noticed that you put a plugin suggestion for link of the day. Such a plugin would have to work by downloading a file containing said link. I got thinking about it, and realized that a plugin to do such a thing was something of a vast overkill. If you're having to hit the server anyway, why not just link to a page, containing a response.redirect to the site of the day? This would achieve exactly the same thing, with no additional server overhead, and no plugin necessary on the client side. So how about it?
AJ/Kris
I was looking at the DX plugin examples, yet another item to the ever growing list of why I can't put off learning c++ (I've successfully put it off for about 8 years now), and I noticed that you put a plugin suggestion for link of the day. Such a plugin would have to work by downloading a file containing said link. I got thinking about it, and realized that a plugin to do such a thing was something of a vast overkill. If you're having to hit the server anyway, why not just link to a page, containing a response.redirect to the site of the day? This would achieve exactly the same thing, with no additional server overhead, and no plugin necessary on the client side. So how about it?
AJ/Kris
AJCrowley
Reply #3 Monday, July 30, 2001 3:05 PM
Reply #3 Monday, July 30, 2001 3:05 PM
I looked into delphi, it also looks to be quite difficult. I got a sample from Mr. Belev, and while it made sense, it was pretty basic and I'm not sure where to go from there, anyone know where I can get more Delphi samples?
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Reply #1 Monday, July 30, 2001 6:27 AM
No, to be interesting, such an object would need to connect to a server once a day, then download a new text and image every day. That would be cool, this way people would know what the site of the day is without having to visit any web page.
My 2 cents.