The story around this has changed. If you want to pass some data into Elm from JS once, on initialization, you are now served by: http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/html/1.1.0/Html-App#programWithFlags
2016-08-17 12:48 GMT+02:00 Wei Tang <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I'm trying to define an "incoming port" that will *only be called once* > when the app starts. I read some tutorials (http://danielbachler.de/2016/ > 02/26/ports-in-elm.html) and it says I can define a "non-signal" type > port to do this. However, I get this error: > > 8| port graphName : String > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > You are saying it should be: > > String > > But you need to use the particular format described here: > <http://guide.elm-lang.org/effect_managers/> > > But I didn't find any useful information in the provided links. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > -- Wei > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
