I having a problem converting a program from javascript need expert
advice to point me to a book that can help. This is a very tuff one,
and I know would take hours to write please help. This program is
suppose to add only selected checkboxes.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<!-- Generated by AceHTML Freeware http://freeware.acehtml.com -->
<!-- Creation date: 7/5/2003 -->
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
/>
<title></title>
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="generator" content="AceHTML 5 Freeware" />
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

var form_total=0;

function CheckChoice(whichbox)
{

if (whichbox.checked == false)
{ form_total -= eval(whichbox.value); }
else { form_total += eval(whichbox.value); }

document.myform.total.value = '$'+eval(form_total);

}

function InitForm()
{

document.myform.total.value='$0';

for (xx=0; xx < document.myform.elements.length; xx++)
{
if (document.myform.elements[xx].type == 'checkbox')
{
document.myform.elements[xx].checked = false;
}
}
}


</SCRIPT>

</head>

<body onload="InitForm();" onreset="InitForm();">
<CENTER><font size="7" color="#008000"><b><u>Cubicle
Buildout</u></b></CENTER></font><br><br><br>
<CENTER><form method="POST" name="myform">
<font size="5"
color="#800000">Computer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#0000ff">$700.25</font>
<input type="checkbox" name="Build1" value=700.25
onclick="CheckChoice(this);"><br><br>
Monitor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs
p;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#0000ff">$912.00</font>
<input type="checkbox" name="Build2" value=912.00
onclick="CheckChoice(this);"><br><br>
Phone(Rolm240)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#0000ff">$118.75</font>
<input type="checkbox" name="Build3" value=118.75
onclick="CheckChoice(this);"><br><br>
Pod1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&
nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font
color="#0000ff">$1515.25</font>
<input type="checkbox" name="Build4" value=1515.25
onclick="CheckChoice(this);"><br><br></font>
<br><br><br><br><br><br>
<br>

<font size=+3>
<font color="#008000"><b>Your total is:&nbsp;</b><input type="text"
name="total" readonly onFocus="this.blur();">
</font>
<br><br>
</font>
</form>

</body>
</html>
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Re: VBScript amatuer needs expert advice by infobound

infobound
Tue Jul 08 11:16:56 CDT 2003

To me, it seems that there is no point in converting this to VBScript.
If you are looking to run VBScript on the client machine, i think you
will find that not everyone has/will be running the asp dll.

If you are still looking for a good book, I suggest the WROX Active
Server Pages 3.0, written by like a dozen different guys on the ASP
topic, great book.

Adam