That said, it’s strange the compiler error pointed you to http://guide.elm-lang.org/effect_managers/. It should have pointed you to http://guide.elm-lang.org/interop/javascript.html instead.
https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/pull/1463 2016-08-17 12:53 GMT+02:00 Janis Voigtländer <[email protected]>: > 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.
