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[Richard Carlson <>]

Hi Clara;

At 03:24 PM 5/30/2007, Carla Hunt wrote:
> first, thank you for all of the work on this tool. NDT is a very
> useful tool!

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.

> we are currently looking to add a couple of features and are not sure
> of the best way to approach. we would like for a user to be able to
> visit the main page of our NDT server and input the name of their
> location.

You might want to look at the contrib directory.  There is a javascript 
program from Virginia Tech that creates a google map mashup, plotting the 
client location on the map.  This might meet the needs to identify the 
clients location.

> we would also like for the NDT applet to be invoked
> multiple times from one
> click of the "start" button. given a very limited applet development
> skill set, we are investigating either using another applet to invoke
> the NDT applet in a loop, or modifying the NDT applet to include a
> swing based timer that would run the NDT tests based on a timer.
> the timing element might be executing the NDT tests at a rate of 5x
> per hour until the browser window is closed.

If you want to run repetitive tests then I suggest you use the command line 
client instead of the browser version.  The command line client (web100clt) 
comes with the package and it gets installed into the /usr/local/bin 
directory.  You can build this client program on other OS's (and you can 
download a Windows executable version from the NDT download web page).  It 
would be a simple matter to use cron on a *nix box or use the Windows XP 
scheduler to run tests on a repetitive basis.

> a few questions we have are:
> --is this possible
> --which would be better, invoking the NDT applet from another applet
> or modifying the NDT applet to run on a timer, or
> --is there a better way?
> --any chance this capability could make its way in as a feature
> request :)
>
> any advice, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Check out the web100clt program and see if that meets your needs.

Regards;
Rich

> regards,
> Carla

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