I am not really sure what the specifics are. If you already have the data
loaded, but only need to display it, then there is no method of segmented
updating. If you are talking about a need to download the dataset, then this is
where I am refering to server->client communication.
Jonah wrote:
> Michael,
>
> But how does the afro api do this? It is not even a question of
> client-server communication, it is really about browser rendering. The
> method I imagine would be called something like appendHTML() instead of
> setHTML(), and would somehow tell the browser to only redraw the new html.
> So I'm pretty sure it's a DHTML trick I'm after. My gut tells me its not
> possible, but I thought I'd at least check to make sure. By the way, thanks
> for the explanation of the afro api.
>
> Jonah
>
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> This is where the AfroAPI may be needed : ). It allows for talking to the
> server ans requesting only the new rows. Than all you need to do is add
> then to
> the bottom. It very hard to get the dynapi to do this successfully.
>
> Jonah wrote:
>
> > in displaying a large table of data, is it possible to get the browser to
> > redraw only a portion of the screen, so that it would only redraw the
> bottom
> > of the table as new rows are added. Essentially, the screen would grow
> > downward as the data loads but there would be no flicker due to the redraw
> > of the entire table.
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