HTA's & ASP

[Stuart]

Does any one know how to display data from a database and display it in an
HTML Application?

Can this be done?

The reason I ask is that I am developing an internal web based application
that requires 1 datasource for many sites (geographical locations) and I
wish to remove the tool bar facility from the browser to stop people hitting
the back button etc. etc.

Any help always greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Stuart

[Mike Florio]

How are you going to navigate to the site in the first place ? You might
have to build a custom app around a web-browser control.

You can always use parameters of window.open in client script to control
browser appearance.
"Stuart" <st****@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
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Does any one know how to display data from a database and display it in an
HTML Application?

Can this be done?

The reason I ask is that I am developing an internal web based application
that requires 1 datasource for many sites (geographical locations) and I
wish to remove the tool bar facility from the browser to stop people hitting the back button etc. etc.

Any help always greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Stuart

[Stuart]

Mike,

How would I go about building a custom app around a web control???

I am willing to learn, so if you could point me in the right direction for
references on building something like this I would be very grateful.
Regards,

Stuart
"Mike Florio" <mi**@micro-point.com> wrote in message
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How are you going to navigate to the site in the first place ? You might
have to build a custom app around a web-browser control.

You can always use parameters of window.open in client script to control
browser appearance.
"Stuart" <st****@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OU**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Does any one know how to display data from a database and display it in an HTML Application?

Can this be done?

The reason I ask is that I am developing an internal web based application that requires 1 datasource for many sites (geographical locations) and I
wish to remove the tool bar facility from the browser to stop people

hitting

the back button etc. etc.

Any help always greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Stuart

[Mike Florio]

I've done this in Visual C++ using MFC. You base your view class on a web
browser control. I suppose you can do it in Visual Basic too. Of course,
you'd have to deliver your app to all your clients... This has nothing to
do with HTA's by the way. You would really be essentially writing your own
web browser for your own website.

"Stuart" <st****@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
news:O%****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Mike,

How would I go about building a custom app around a web control???

I am willing to learn, so if you could point me in the right direction for
references on building something like this I would be very grateful.
Regards,

Stuart
"Mike Florio" <mi**@micro-point.com> wrote in message
news:10*************@corp.supernews.com...

How are you going to navigate to the site in the first place ? You might

have to build a custom app around a web-browser control.

You can always use parameters of window.open in client script to control
browser appearance.
"Stuart" <st****@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OU**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Does any one know how to display data from a database and display it in

an HTML Application?

Can this be done?

The reason I ask is that I am developing an internal web based application that requires 1 datasource for many sites (geographical locations) and

I wish to remove the tool bar facility from the browser to stop people

hitting

the back button etc. etc.

Any help always greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Stuart

[Brian Staff]

Stuart,

Why do want to use HTA's?

Who are your users?

Brian

[Stuart]

Brian

The site is for an internal Web based application.

I want to stop users clicking back button and I want to be able to control
the whole navigation process.

Some people just cannot be trusted to leave things alone - they keep messing
with the address strings.

Stuart
"Brian Staff" <brianstaff@[NoSpam]compuserve.com> wrote in message
news:VA.00000252.8b251ce5@bstaffw2k...

Stuart,

Why do want to use HTA's?

Who are your users?

Brian

[Brian Staff]

Stuart,

The site is for an internal Web based application.

I want to stop users clicking back button and I want to be able to control
the whole navigation process.

Why not launch a browser window using DHTML window.open() where you can specify
no menubar and no toolbar and then you can use standard ASP...JAT

Remember though that the backspace key still simulates the "Back" button, but
you can probably intercept that.

Brian

[William Morris]

Just a note from someone who's been there:

If you take away standard - read "expected" or "familiar" - functionalities,
you're going to get HUGE pushback from your end users. I can understand
needing to control process, but you might take a real close look at the end
goals and see if they're still acheived with the interface left alone.
Admittedly, the view's not very good from the cheap seats, here, but that's
my 2p worth.

- Wm

--
William Morris
Product Development, Seritas LLC
Kansas City, Missouri

"Stuart" <st****@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
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Brian

The site is for an internal Web based application.

I want to stop users clicking back button and I want to be able to control
the whole navigation process.

Some people just cannot be trusted to leave things alone - they keep messing with the address strings.

Stuart
"Brian Staff" <brianstaff@[NoSpam]compuserve.com> wrote in message
news:VA.00000252.8b251ce5@bstaffw2k...

Stuart,

Why do want to use HTA's?

Who are your users?

Brian