[Javascript] Passing data

[Ian Turner]

Certainly the latter is possible. Though your parsing routine might be
complex and therefore large in its own right.
It could be done as a server side include file or by putting a string into
the HTML file.

All the best
	Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: javascript-admin at LaTech.edu [mailto:javascript-admin at LaTech.edu]On
Behalf Of Steve White
Sent: 03 April 2001 16:47
To: javascript at LaTech.edu
Subject: [Javascript] Passing data


We generate large graphic data structures to be processed by our included js
code. I would like to reduce the size of the data as much as possible.

Instead of passing the data as variable assignments it would be better to
pass it as binary or if that is not possible at least as a sequence of ASCII
values. So instead of:

Mctl[2][0].dis=0;
Mctl[2][0].cout=43431132;
Mctl[2][0].rgb1=33593818;
Mctl[2][0].rgb2=10066329;
Mctl[2][0].lwid=0;
Mctl[2][1] = new Array();
Mctl[2][1].sclx=1.00;
Mctl[2][1].scly=1.00;
Mctl[2][1].rot=-91.00;
Mctl[2][1].tim=363;
Mctl[2][1].dis=238;
Mctl[2][1].cout=43431132;

I could do something like:

0, 43431132,33593818,10066329,0,1.00,1.00,91.00,363,238,43431132;

Can JavaScript be used to read an attached binary or ASCII file? Or could it
be included within the SVG/HTML document as a huge string and then parsed
following the onload event?

Thanks

Steve White
www.VirtualMechanics.com
www.DHTMLMagic.com
www.SVGMagic.com
www.IMSWebTips.com


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