RSEnableRemoteScripting and a period at top of pag

lvinsel · July 21st, 2003, 08:38 AM

Help!
I am curious as to why a period appears as the first character of a rendered html page when i include the following script block????? What's more, is there anyway to suppress it????

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript>
RSEnableRemoteScripting("../_ScriptLibrary");
</script>

Any help in the matter will be appreciated,

lvinsel

joefawcett · July 21st, 2003, 10:48 AM

I've never seen this although I haven't used remote scripting for some time. Are you sure that an extra character hasn't crept into the source?

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Joe

lvinsel · July 21st, 2003, 12:33 PM

That's entirely possible. Perhaps the culprit is the RSEnableRemoteScripting method? I'll check that next.

What i've found is that when i comment out that line of script, the period disappears. It's weird. I have remote scripts in another application and the same thing happens. (btw - this script appears in a html page - not asp).

Thanks for your response.

lvinsel · July 21st, 2003, 01:53 PM

thanks for your help...

that line inistantiates an applet with the following line

document.write('<' + 'APPLET name=RSAspProxyApplet codebase=' + codebase + ' code=RSProxy.class height=0 width=0></APPLET>');

I don't have access to RSProxy.class in my installation of ms interdev. (not that i could even read the code there anyway). i guess i could.

any ideas?

lvinsel · July 21st, 2003, 02:17 PM

i found it!

as is obvious from my previous post, an applet is instantiated. what is rendered is not a period but the graphic representation of the applet - only really small. i corrected this with the following...

    RSEnableRemoteScripting("../_ScriptLibrary");
    RSAspProxyApplet.style.visibility="hidden";
    RSAspProxyApplet.style.display="none";

the RSEnableRemoteScripting method instantiates the applet whose id=RSAspProxyApplet.

i simply turned off the visibility and display options and the graphic went away!

issue solved...

joefawcett · July 22nd, 2003, 02:31 AM

Well I wondered if it might be that but as the width and height aree st to zero it shouldn't show. Why not modify RS.HTM to say:

Code:

document.write('<' + 'APPLET name=RSAspProxyApplet codebase=' + codebase + ' code=RSProxy.class style=\"display:none\" height=0 width=0></APPLET>');

and forget about having to include your extra code?
One of the reasons I stopped using remote scripting was its reliance on Java, with all the different JVMs out there and the Microsoft "will they wont they?" about running it I moved, amongst other things, to a JavaScript only version written by Brent Ashley. It's available from http://www.ashleyit.com/rs/

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Joe