After giving up on using the ClientAPI, I've recently tried to use it again, and again with no avail! ... I'm not really sure what I am doing wrong, but if someone could point me in the right direction, or better yet, just tell me what I am doing wrong that would be great ...

Here is what I am trying to do with the code:

Registering a .js script with DNN, Registering a ClientVariable ...

 If Me.Page.IsClientScriptBlockRegistered("countdown.js") = False Then
     Me.Page.RegisterClientScriptBlock("countdown.js", "<script language=javascript src=""" & Me.ModulePath & "countdown.js""></script>")
     ClientAPI.RegisterClientVariable(Me.Page, "ctrID", Me.ClientID, True)
     ClientAPI.RegisterClientVariable(Me.Page, "TargetDate", Me.ClientID, True)
 End If

Here is the .js file (It displays a count down on the web page)...

ctrID = "";
TargetDate = "";
BackColor = "";
ForeColor = "";
CountActive = true;
CountStepper = -1;
LeadingZero = true;
DisplayFormat = " %%H%%:%%M%%:%%S%%.";
FinishMessage = " Out of time!";

function calcage(secs, num1, num2) {
  s = ((Math.floor(secs/num1))%num2).toString();
  if (LeadingZero && s.length < 2)
    s = "0" + s;
  return "<b>" + s + "</b>";
}

function CountBack(secs) {
  if (secs < 0) {
    alert("Time has run out!");
    window.location.href = '/DotNetNukeSource/';
  }
 
  DisplayStr = DisplayFormat.replace(/%%D%%/g, calcage(secs,86400,100000));
  DisplayStr = DisplayStr.replace(/%%H%%/g, calcage(secs,3600,24));
  DisplayStr = DisplayStr.replace(/%%M%%/g, calcage(secs,60,60));
  DisplayStr = DisplayStr.replace(/%%S%%/g, calcage(secs,1,60));

  document.getElementById("cntdwn").innerHTML = DisplayStr;
  if (CountActive)
    setTimeout("CountBack(" + (secs+CountStepper) + ")", SetTimeOutPeriod);
}

//******************************************
//Rather than using the document.write, I'd much rather just use the .innerHTML of a control on the web page, but I can't seem to register that control correctly either, so for now I am using the following a just drawing a <span> tag.
function putspan(backcolor, forecolor) {
 document.write("<span id='cntdwn' style='background-color:" + backcolor +
                "; color:" + forecolor + "'></span>");
}

if (typeof(BackColor)=="undefined")
  BackColor = "white";
if (typeof(ForeColor)=="undefined")
  ForeColor= "black";
if (typeof(TargetDate)=="undefined")
  TargetDate = "12/31/2020 5:00 AM";
if (typeof(DisplayFormat)=="undefined")
  DisplayFormat = "%%D%% Days, %%H%% Hours, %%M%% Minutes, %%S%% Seconds.";
if (typeof(CountActive)=="undefined")
  CountActive = true;
if (typeof(FinishMessage)=="undefined")
  FinishMessage = "";
if (typeof(CountStepper)!="number")
  CountStepper = -1;
if (typeof(LeadingZero)=="undefined")
  LeadingZero = true;


CountStepper = Math.ceil(CountStepper);
if (CountStepper == 0)
  CountActive = false;
var SetTimeOutPeriod = (Math.abs(CountStepper)-1)*1000 + 990;
putspan(BackColor, ForeColor);
var dthen = new Date(TargetDate);
var dnow = new Date();
if(CountStepper>0)
  ddiff = new Date(dnow-dthen);
else
  ddiff = new Date(dthen-dnow);
gsecs = Math.floor(ddiff.valueOf()/1000);
CountBack(gsecs);

Basically because I can't seem to get my .js to play nicely with the ClientAPI here is the route I've taken for now until someone can explain to me what I am doing wrong or I just find another way ...

Dim scriptText As String

scriptText = "<script language=javascript>"
scriptText += "TargetDate = '11/10/2006 1:55 PM';"
scriptText += "</script>"
scriptText += "<script language=javascript src=""" & Me.ModulePath & "countdown.js""></script>"
Me.lblTime.Text = scriptText

As the later works fine, I'd really like to learn how to use the ClientAPI, properly ...

Thanks,
HBenton

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Wisconsins DNN User Group: www.WIDNN.com
Visit my home page: www.HerbBenton.com

I had the dnn.getVar added in there and then I took it out after not being able to get the clientAPI to play nicely with my code ... I posted this thread after getting my code to work in the later example of my thread ...

I've looked at the ClientAPI document, numerous times and numerous times I've been frustrated looking at it, I was really hoping to get someone to create some short piece of code that says something along the lines of "Put this here like this 'dnn.getVar(324234);' and then do this, blah, blah, blah ... so on and so forth" rather than pointing to the documentation on the API

To this point the only area of DotNetNuke that frustrates me is the ClientAPI and I have been downloading and implementing DotNetNuke within our intranet at work since v1.0. Maybe a re-write on the documentation is in order.

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Wisconsins DNN User Group: www.WIDNN.com
Visit my home page: www.HerbBenton.com

Jon –

I just wanted to apologize for blasting you in the forum about the documentation. As you can see some time has gone by since my last post, in this time I have been trying to work with the ClientAPI to implement it into a project that I have been working on here at work … I think a combination of the lack of requirements supplied to me on this project at work and my lack of knowledge of the ClientAPI just triggered my frustrations and, well, as a result I fired off on you … my sincere apologizes!

HBenton

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Wisconsins DNN User Group: www.WIDNN.com
Visit my home page: www.HerbBenton.com