Subj : Re: Writing custom script To : Sam Alexander From : Tracker1 Date : Thu Apr 13 2006 01:50 am Sam Alexander wrote: > Okay, I'm no JS programmer, but I'd love to learn. One project I think > might be fun to write plus useful is something that'll take an RSS Feed and > plug the downloaded media files into a file area then use details from the > XML file to create details. Problem is I have no idea where to start! There's a few JS based implimentations of the W3C-DOM for XML, however, they load pretty slowly, and take up a bit of memory for the object model. see > For those seasoned in JS and how it works with Sync, would this be a decent > first project to attempt? I used to program in C++ many years ago in > MS-DOS, but it's been literally 7-10 years since I wrote a piece of code. > Currently I mainly program for web, so that's PHP and ColdFusion, but I > wnat something that'll be portable and something I can share with others > easily, which is why JS might be best. > > Thanks for any advice or maybe pointers to do some Hello World apps with JS > and Sync. If you are going to play with message areas, nntp*.js, and news*.js are where I would start... There are a few other examples that come with JS.. Honestly, read "The JavaScript Bible" 5th edition, it's a decent read, and only really need about the first half, the second is very browser specific.. the first half can apply pretty aptly to the bbs... there are a few links on the website that may help as well, in addition to looking at the samples... -- Michael J. Ryan - tracker1(at)theroughnecks(dot)net - www.theroughnecks.net icq: 4935386 - AIM/AOL: azTracker1 - Y!: azTracker1 - MSN/Win: (email) --- þ Synchronet þ theroughnecks.net - you know you want it .