BinaryJam

I have one of these devices.

It is a lovely piece of kit.  It looks beautiful, its sounds
fantastic.  Even the cheap free headphones, which hurt my ears a
little as they are small ears, sound good.

It has its down sides.

Whilst it can be connected like a USB pen drive to a PC, anything copied like this cannot be accessed by the player.
All music must be Synced via SonicStage, no iTunes support no WMP support.

In my personal opinion, SonicStage blows goats.

In my personal opinion, and others are free to disagree, SonicStage is
an offence to programmers everywhere.  The developers of this
product are breathing my air.

I mailed Sony about it and whilst lovingly polite……. you already know what they said don’t you.

I’m going to live with this device, as the device is great and I can
just shove all my faves onto it for Gym purposes.  Then Im going
to buy an iPod when I have the cash.

I haven’t had much luck with aftersales support from Sony, so I think I
will avoid them.  But feel free to form your own opinions and
purchase Sony if its right for you.

Its not right for me, not any more. 

Although I do like the look of the 3CCD TRV900 series……..

I feel sick.

I have been having trouble.  For the past two days I have been trying to create a webpart that has two text boxes and a bunch of a Links as buttons (brand issue no nasty submit buttons).

I had a bit of Jscript that called the navigate of my main image link button so it did a post back.  This worked till I did a little more testing with more parts and the add new web part sidebar opened.  Every time I hit enter in this scenario it started adding web parts.  At first I thought some clown is messing with my test portal, but soon realised that the submit button of the form was being executed.  So I added a cancelBubble.  No joy.  I tried various incarnations of the __doPostBack call to see if that was the problem. (its been a while since I did real hardcore jscript ie4/5 change over period last time, so cancelBubble was all I knew about event problems).

I found this article by Dino.

    http://cs2themax.com/ShowContent.aspx?ID=de009ab9-e7e4-42cb-b12f-d7364911b799

It is some code for a PostTextBox that fires an enter pressed, well thought piece of work, goes a little beyond what I had in mind, but essentially the same code client side with the bonus server side event thrown.  Well as you can guess this works fine on a single form page, but anything more complicated and forget it, exactly the same problems again.

I gave up. So I thought Ajax. That will do, done that before 8 years ago, so I knocks up more jscript with http request to my webservice.  Works great and fast, but I was concerned about the client installations having MSXML on them.  A bit of a scout round and other standard desktops give me security messages, as obviously I’m accessing a web service that is not on the portal web.  Can’t have that.  I know I’ll go real old school and hidden Iframe my posts instead.  And Again in previous projects this approach works great as its contained within the same site, this time I get an access denied in trying to access the parent windows html and the parent just cant access the child’s html.  

ARRRRRRGGHHHH.

What next, I know I ‘ll know up a http fetcher page in portal so I can call it local and it returns the results as a local proxy.  No too evil.

So back to google.  I need to get the postback working.

This guy came to the rescue.

http://blogs.wwwcoder.com/prodigal/archive/2005/05/04/3958.aspx

Two additional lines of code to my original and it all works

    window.event.returnValue = false;
    window.event.cancel = true;

Had no idea about returnValue, some dim recollection of event.cancel, but I never thought to put that in. now I have.

My web part works I can hit enter and I get my search results, not as slick as AJAX or hidden IFRAME (which by the way is how the old Plumtree gadget I wrote worked). but problem solved.

Lets make it better.

Merge the two.  I now have a PostTextBox control that has enter hit events and doesn’t give me additional postbutton grief.