Re: Stuck in chapter 3 of the Mendis book
Re: Stuck in chapter 3 of the Mendis book
- Subject: Re: Stuck in chapter 3 of the Mendis book
- From: Wolfram Stebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:39:29 +0200
- Thread-topic: Stuck in chapter 3 of the Mendis book
Am 29.06.2006 8:57 Uhr schrieb "email@hidden" unter <email@hidden>:
Hi Janine,
(...removed some words about this book here...)
Drop this book. That helped me.
I used another beginners book instead, Visual Quickpro Guide WebObjects 5
(Josh Marker). It helped me a lot more.
After this try Practical WebObjects (Hill, Mallais), that's in depth...
Regards
Wolfram
> I'm not sure if the author is being unclear or if I'm being dense,
> but I'm stuck and hoping someone can help me out here:
>
> First problem:
>
> We created a new project, which is supposed to become the splash page
> for the Dynamic Movies app. It has an image, and an image map hand-
> typed in to Main.html which looks like this:
>
> <map name="splashmap">
> <area shape=rect coords="191,137,259,174" href="http://www.dell.com";>
> <area shape=rect coords="0,80,215,159" href="http://www.apple.com";>
> <area shape=rect coords="146,52,253,97" href="http://www.ibm.com";>
> <area shape=rect coords="204,89,265,128" href="http://www.sun.com";>
> </map>
>
> Then we created a component called WOArea.
>
> He lost me completely at the top of page 44:
>
> "Now in the Main component, replace each of the image map area
> elements with WOArea dynamic elements."
>
> I have no idea how to do that. I can add four WOAreas to the page,
> of course, but how to make them replace the image map? Not a clue.
> I tried looking at his source code but as usual all traces of this
> intermediate step are gone, so it didn't help.
>
> Second problem:
>
> I tried to keep going but got stuck again right away at the top of p.
> 45:
>
> "So create a new component called WOMappedRollover. Cut and paste
> the elements for the image map (that is the script, the image map
> itself, and the image) into the WOMappedRollover component."
>
> Script? Eh what? I have no idea what he's talking about, and once
> again the sample code fails me because there doesn't seem to be any
> trace of this step left in it. Or I'm just not seeing it because I
> don't know what he's referring to.
>
> Has anyone before me figured these out? Or am I just showing my
> ignorance?
>
> Thanks,
>
> janine
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