JGS updates again....

I just wanted to let you all know that I've updated
my homepage with 70K worth of new ASCII art and
two new JavaScript animations... (I still can't get the
spiderweb one to work right for me despite the help).
Anyhow, I think you'll like my new pics.
-joan
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Hi Joan,

How about the below solution? You mentioned that the animation was too
long, so this splits it in half.

var max=0;    
function tlist()
{ 
  max=tlist.arguments.length;
  for(i=0;i<max;i++) 
    this[i]=tlist.arguments[i];    
}    

tlx = new tlist(
// First half of animation

);

tly = new tlist(
// Second half of animation

);

var x=0;
function tick() 
{
  if (x < 25) 
    document.f.t.value=tlx[x];        
  else // x >= 25    
    document.f.t.value=tly[x-25];
  x++; 
  if(x==max) 
    x=0;        //if(confirm('continue?'))            
  setTimeout("tick()",200);    
}    //-->


Hope the above works,
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In article <33B...@nospam.sm.luth.se>, Veronica Karlsson
<e93...@nospam.sm.luth.se> writes:
>but that is the one I sent to you... (that you said didn't work) (???)
It didn't work for me again when I visited your site... :(
I'm looking with a 16 bit, Windows 3.1, Netscape Gold 3.01 browser...
It wouldn't work...  Maybe my system is too old for the longer
animations..
Anything past 750 lines chokes it with an "unterminated string literal".
I'm going to play around with the coding that Shimrod sent me...
maybe that will solve the problem.  I'll let you all know.

Anyhow, in my next update of the homepage (which ought to be before
the fourth of july) I will have the last part of the spider animation
along
with a link to the longer version... it doesn't work for me- but the
coding
is correct and may work for others-- like you!  :)

-joan
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                                     }       //  `` -=(((
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<http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/>  '\'.`/_____.;'  '-'
                                         `-`     `\/  jgs

In article <33B...@wing.rug.nl>, Shimrod <csg...@wing.rug.nl>
wrote:
> 
> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> >
> > Spunk1111 wrote:
> > >
> > > In article <33B...@nospam.sm.luth.se>, Veronica Karlsson
> > > <e93...@nospam.sm.luth.se> writes:
> > > >but that is the one I sent to you... (that you said didn't work)
> > > >(???)
> > > It didn't work for me again when I visited your site... :(
> > > I'm looking with a 16 bit, Windows 3.1, Netscape Gold 3.01
> > > browser... It wouldn't work...  Maybe my system is too old for the
> > > longer animations..
> > > Anything past 750 lines chokes it with an "unterminated string
> > > literal".
> > > I'm going to play around with the coding that Shimrod sent me...
> > > maybe that will solve the problem.  I'll let you all know.
> > >
> > > Anyhow, in my next update of the homepage (which ought to be before
> > > the fourth of july) I will have the last part of the spider
> > > animation along
> > > with a link to the longer version... it doesn't work for me- but the
> > > coding is correct and may work for others-- like you!  :)
> > >
> >
> > :(
> >
> > (am I the only one who can see it? I have written to the people who
> > made Netscape about it but they haven't answered yet...)
> >
> > --
> > :)
> > Veronica Karlsson
> > ( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )
> 
> I can see it, but I'm on a UNIX system like you (I like it btw).
> I hope my coding works, if the problem is the maximum length an
> array can have, it should, but if it's a memory problem it won't
> I'm allready working on something else btw.
> 
> Greetz,
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I too can see it and I am not on UNIX. I am using Netscape Navigator
3.01 on Windows95. I think the length problem has something to do with
the difference between Navigator and Gold.

Has everyone who can see the animations been thoroughly impressed by
Joan's fireworks animation?


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>I too can see it and I am not on UNIX. I am using Netscape Navigator
>3.01 on Windows95. I think the length problem has something to do with
>the difference between Navigator and Gold.

I've heard from others who use Gold and they can see the longer animation.
-joan
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Kevin Kreamer wrote:
> 
> Spunk1111 wrote:
[ 8< ]
> The spider animation works for me when I view it on Navigator Gold 3.01,
> but I'm stuck in Windoze95.  A "unterminated string literal" usually
> means that you have a string that you forgot to "close the quotes <--
> (like this).  But, I'm sure you checked for that.  Hope this helps.
> 

No, that's not it, the code is ok - some of us _can_ see it... (this is
getting stranger and stranger...)

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Spunk1111 wrote:
> 
> In article <33C...@centraltx.net>, Kevin Kreamer
> <kre...@centraltx.net> writes:
> >The spider animation works for me when I view it on Navigator Gold 3.01,
> >but I'm stuck in Windoze95.  A "unterminated string literal" usually
> >means that you have a string that you forgot to "close the quotes <--
> >(like this).  But, I'm sure you checked for that.
> Sure did... even recopied the line in question-- several times.
> Maybe it's the combination NS Gold and Windows 3.1-- it could be that
> it doesn't work on a 16 bit system...  Possible?
> -joan
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Let's look at this reasonably.  What can we rule out and what's left
afterwards?  OK, we know it's not just Navigator Gold, but we have a
strong suspicion that it's Gold interacting with something else.  It has
been suggested that it could be Gold interacting with Win3.1.  It could
also be something to do with the system - amount of memory, other
programs running at the same time, etc.  If we can find one other person
for which the animation fails reliably, we can record the conditions of
both systems and see what things are similar.  We can then rule out some
of those things, by looking at other systems.  We then have left the
answer.  Unfortunately, this involves a lot of work, and I have a
suspicion that Joan just walked under a ladder before she programmed it.

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Spunk1111 wrote:
.
> Maybe it's the combination NS Gold and Windows 3.1-- it could be that
> it doesn't work on a 16 bit system...  Possible?
> -joan

Yes, real possible; in 16-bit code the size of an ordinary array is
limited to 65536 bytes, and a long animation or any fairly large block
of data can overflow it; you have to use a different function and a
different pointer to access an array > 64K, what an incredible hassle,
although I suppose if you are a good programmer, you get used to
it...I'm not and I never have...In NT there's a little known thing, a
true 32-bit text mode, where you can write programs that output to
STDOUT, but in those programs there's none of this near and far pointer
garbage.  Of course no one uses this, because it is difficult to
implement things like an animated paper clip in an application for the
32-bit text mode interface.  I'll bet you could do it, though.

I looked at your ASCII page on Geocities and it's really swell!  I
particularly liked your PARADE animation.  The colors are extra nice;
that's HTML, right?  The crowning touch, I think, was Colonel Bogey's
march as a .MID file.  How do you create those .MID files, anyway?  Do
you need a synthesizer?  Is it possible to manually create a .MID file
from a musical score?  Those animations are so cool, I'm going to learn
JavaScript right away.

Yours WDK

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