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Question

Hi, i decided against sending you an email.
You said that i could do this using tables how may i do this.
i have come up with what i think is a better description of
what i am after.
I wish to simply have the music that is playing in one hidden
table that refreshes every 20 secs as it play different music.
it also updates another table that will contain the track
name that is being played.
the left hand table plays music and i wish for the track
playing to be shown in a table that is in the right hand table.
the right hand table is split into two the bottom is where
the track name is shown the top part is the main site that can be
browsed while the music continues to play unintrupted.
can all this be done using table?
thank you in advance for your help.
Jason

Answer 1

Sorry - I don't think I can really help you with this.
But - if you look at the code in the music frame you can see
this -
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="25;
URL=http://www.wordofmouthdisco.co.uk/musicframe.php">
Lene Marlin - Sitting down here.wav<script
language="JavaScript"
type="text/JavaScript">
function cge(){
var track = " <b> Lene Marlin - Sitting down here.wav
</b> ";
win2=window.parent.mainFrame.document;
win2.getElementById('TrackInfoLayer1').innerHTML = track;
return;
</script>
</head>
The page refreshes every 25 seconds by virtue of the meta
refresh. Each time
it refreshes, it loads a random clip into the music frame
(you don't see
that random load since it's written to the page by the PHP
scripting, which
is stripped by the server before uploading the page to the
browser), and it
loads the track name into the layer on that page called
'TrackInfoLayer1".
What you would need to do is to figure out how to make that
track info load
into a table in the other frame.
I don't work with frames or with music, so I'm not too fluent
with methods
for managing these things....
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"not very clever" <[email protected]> wrote
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> please visit...
> wordofmouthdisco.co.uk
>
> sit for about a minute watching the screen without
touching anything on
> the
> screen.
>
> the left frame automatically refreshes every no and
then, and shown the
> name
> of the track playing at the time. for each song playing.
this works ok
> the left frame my 'musicframe' will be hidden when all
works ok.
>
> the right frame will be visible at all times. as this is
where visitors
> browse the rest of the pages.
> the grey box is where i want the name of the track that
is playing. but
> unlike the left frame that does show the track via a
variable
> '$rand_track',
> the grey box in the right frame does not update
automatically, this frame
> (the
> right frame) can not do a refresh BTW. tried that. it is
out of sync
> when i
> try this.
>
> i think i need to find another method to sent the
variable.
>
> would javascript work?
>
> have a onload in the left frames body tag?
>