save button does no work

[lars m]

I have been working with the save feature the last few days, but cannot even make the button work. My submit button functions nicely, and when I put the saveme.pl string into the submit URL, the submit button finds my saveme.pl file in my CGI-bin without any problems. But the save button does not activate anything at all - no matter what URL I set in the applet properties. Please test if the save button functions as it should.

[Antony Lewis]

You can try it, e.g. at

http://crossword.info/sample/american_demo

(on that site implemented with cookies).

Do you have %PROGRESS% in your URL as a placeholder?

[lars m]

Yes that is just what I want. But I cannot even make the buttons work. In principle, shouldn't the send and save button get me any URL entered into URL tab in the applet properties in "export to files" ? I cannot achieve that. When I enter the URL of my scripts in my CGI-bin manually in my browser, it finds them without any problems. When I try to make the buttons do that for me, nothing happens.

[Antony Lewis]

Ah, at the moment it seems to only work with applet parameters rather than via the URL exported into the puzzle file. Try the latest applet file at

http://crossword.info/jar/ccjava.jar

[lars m]

That link generates 4 folders and a class file when unzipped. Should I just put those files into a directory on my webserver ? I tried that but it still doesn't work.

[Antony Lewis]

Don't unzip it - you just want the .jar file (replace the one supplied with Crossword Compiler).

[domino]

Replacing the JAR file doesn`t seem to have solved the problem - except that the save button now at least activates the scripts in the correct sense and with the crossword data...

However the stored data isn`t subsequently passed back to the crossword. Refreshing/F5ing etc doesn`t help.

[Antony Lewis]

It's up to your web scripts how you handle loading of saved puzzles (i.e. loading a new page with the PROGRESS parameter in the applet tags)

[lars m]

I don't know if I am crazy. I just don't find the ccjava.jar in that file you asked me to download.

[Antony Lewis]

That's the file you downloaded - if you unzipped it, it was the file you were unzipping.

In most browsers you can right click on

http://crossword.info/jar/ccjava.jar

and select "Save link as" (or similar) to save the file to your hard disk.

[domino]

I picked up the new .jar OK and had another go at the whole thing from scratch...

The scripts seem to be doing their thing OK and if I view source on the target crossword page I can see.


<PARAM NAME='PROGRESS' VALUE='------CAT----------DOG----------------------HORSE--------------------------------------------------------------------'>

I just can`t seem to get it to re-populate the grid.

I`ll give it a rest for a while and have another go later.. as I am probably missing something ...

It used to work straight out the box on V6 & V7 but I`ve never managed to get it save on V8 for some reason... even with the new options checked or otherwise.

[lars m]

OK I managed to download as a jar file with Firefox instead of IE7. Now the buttons activate the scripts.

Now I am almost as far as domino. I got the saveme.pl and showpuz.pl in place in my cgi-bin which is the only place where perl script is executable on my webserver. (And my submitme.pl works nicely here). The only thing I have changed in the scripts is the perl path, so it complies with my webserver.

In my puzzle html (..test.html) I got the %progress% between the applet tags by means of the "save enabled" template supplied by you:

<applet class="CCJava" code="Grid_int.class"
archive="ccjava.jar" name="CCXWORD" height="768"
width="835">
<param name="DATAFILE" value="test.jpz"><!--[CCPROGRESS]-->
You need Java enabled to view the crossword applet.
</applet

I got the following in my "saveme" url:

http://www.sprogkryds.dk/cgi-bin/saveme.pl?
http://www.sprogkryds.dk/cgi-bin/showpuz.pl?
../puzzles/demos/test.html%progress%

But when I click the save button in the puzzle, it is not saving any words in the saveme.pl.

Do you have any suggestions where to look to bring this a step further ?

[Antony Lewis]

%progress% needs to be upper case and you seem to be missing the question mark.

These sample scripts are pretty old now, I'd probably do it somewhat differently now.

[lars m]

Thanks. It helped with %PROGRESS% in upper case. I am now getting a bit more than the sample, http://www.crossword-compiler.com/users/appletdemo/Camb.html that is just returning a blank page.

The save button is now saving the puzzle solution data in the saveme.pl, and when I am activating the link I am actually directed back to the the correct puzzle html, but it is not able to show the java puzzle - instead it is just showing the blank square with an X in the upper left corner. To me it looks like it is not able to activate the java.jar, but I am not sure. Any suggestions how to move on, please ??

The url looks like this with XYLITOL as the saved data:

http://www.sprogkryds.dk/cgi-bin/showpu ... ----------

See the puzzle here http://www.sprogkryds.dk/index/test.html

[Antony Lewis]

The easiest thing is to have all scripts in the same folder, otherwise you may need to change the CODEBASE for the location of the .jar file and put in a path to the location of the puzzle file.