Re: Auto-refreshing Page

If I'm understanding your description correctly, no one else is seeing this
page --only the user of that particular PC...correct?  I'm making this
inference based on your indication that it won't be served from any remote
source.  I've also made the conclusion that you don't wish to use any
client-side scripting to serve this purpose.

If that's the case, why don't you use something like Microsoft Scheduler or
any third-party application that serves a similar purpose?  You could
schedule the page to reload at the designated time.

I'm unclear on the point of all this, though...if it's just to control a
calendar...what's wrong with the one that comes with Windows?  I don't
really understand the intent here.

Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kehvan M. Zydhek" <kehvan(at)zydhek.net>
To: "HWG Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 8:01 PM
Subject: Auto-refreshing Page


> Hi group,
>
> I would like to know if this can be done... it may be simple, but I think
it
> may actually be trickier than it may appear on the surface...
>
> I need a page to automatically refresh at midnight local time (based on
the
> system clock). This page is not written in anything but plain (X)HTML (no
> ASP/VBScript, JavaScript, PHP, CGI, etc). A meta tag could be used, but my
> understanding is that meta refresh tags count down seconds from the last
> page refresh, and that is not what quite what I need...
>
> Okay, let me explain:
> This page is a Windows ActiveDesktop page, thus it is not being served by
a
> webhost, nor is PWS/IIS running on this system. It is using MSIE's
> desktop-modification handles to literally display a real webpage as the
> desktop wallpaper. The purpose of the auto-refreshing at midnight is that
I
> want to include a rudimentary calendar on the desktop, too... one that
> highlights the current date (thus the refresh need at midnight).
>
> Does my explanation make sense? A meta refresh (which is used for another
> part of this page) does indeed work, but works on a built-in timer, not on
> the system clock. I need for the page to refresh itself on it's own at (or
> relatively close to) midnight on the local system, so that the highlighted
> date would advance from April 14 to April 15, for example. Can this be
done
> without server-side languages? Will it require the use of client-side
> languages (such as JavaScript)?
>
> Please advise! Thanks in advance,
> Kehvan
>
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