Date:  Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:54:16 -0500
From:  madodelatptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Warpdoctor plug-in and status

From: "Douglas Clark" <dgclark32atcovad.net> 

The Rexx Plug-in now released as version 1.00. It is packaged as a WarpIN
install.

The documentation has been completed. There is now a user guide,
programmer's guide and programming reference.

The plug-in and documentation can be found at
http://www.warpdoctor.org/plugin_page.html

Any questions, comments or bugs reports can be directed to me.

Recap: ------ We are looking at the final stages of getting textual and
graphical input from general users and inputting that into the WarpDoctor
database. 

We are intending to use the Rexx Plug-in to solicit the input and perform
the transfers and CGI program execution as needed.

 All information, menus and screens/pages in the WarpDoctor site will come
from data stored in the DB2 database and streamed to the browser using CGI
programs. The data will be stored in the database in compressed format
(gzip) and streamed to the browser as is, identified as Encoding: gzip.
For those few users (and you know who you are) using older browsers not
capable of handling compressed data streams the CGI program will
decompress the data before streaming to the browser. 


Where we are at:
----------------
Having researched some EPM/HTML packages I have not found one that both
looks promising and works. (I have some that looked good, and some that
worked, but not at the same time) 

Therefor the final steps are:

1) Write Rexx program for the plug-in that
        a) for new data gets a unique identifier from the database
        b) for changing existing data - downloads data to client
        c) executes EPM with our macro and the input or change file

2) Write some Rexx macros for EPM. The macros will
    a) add menu items (and hopefully toolbar buttons) for
        - view the HTML file  - opens/updates a browser window with file
contents
        - save file to database. This will
                - scan the file file <img src=...> tags
                     change the src value to a database query token
                     gather local image files into a list
                 - send HTML file and image files to server
                 - invoke CGI program on server to import data

3) Write the DB2 triggers and table definitions that insure
    that the image rows associated with an HTML row are deleted
    when the HTML row is deleted.

4) Write a small DB2 CLP program that crams the data from the files into
DB2 table(s)

The end is in sight.


Douglas Clark
                           

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