i guess you meant put the snippet right in the CometActor. Ok. Now I'm
getting it.

On Oct 5, 11:46 pm, Jack Widman <jack.wid...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry if this is a dumb question but in <lift:comet type="Search"
> name={searchString}/>, what is searchString? This is in an html file. I am
> obviously missing something.
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:40 PM, David Pollak
> <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
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> > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Jack Widman <jack.wid...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >> Understood. My intention is to send a ShutDown message to the CometActor
> >> when somebody closes the browser. I need this so that when they visit the
> >> page in a browser again, the CometActor is 'reset'.
>
> > First, there's no way to determine if the browser window is closed.
>
> > Second, *DO NOT* send a ShutDown message to the CometActor.  This is an
> > internal Lift piece of housekeeping.  If you do this, you will break stuff.
> >  Don't do it.  (There is a reason the message is not private, but it should
> > not be used for this purpose.)
>
> > CometActors can be named:
>
> > <lift:comet type="Search" name={searchString}/>
>
> > You can then have a separate CometActor for each searchString.  Voila...
> > you get what you want.  Now, how do you make then CometActor go away when
> > it's not being used anymore?
>
> > In your CometActor:
> >  override def lifespan: Box[TimeSpan] = Full(3 minutes)
>
> > That means if a CometActor does not appear on a page for 3 minutes, it's
> > removed from the session.  If the named CometActor is requested again, a new
> > one will be created.
>
> >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:18 PM, marius d. <marius.dan...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >>> HTTP session termination does not equate with browser-close event.
>
> >>> Br's,
> >>> Marius
>
> >>> On Oct 5, 3:22 pm, Jack Widman <jack.wid...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > Yes, thats what I meant. Thanks
>
> >>> > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Timothy Perrett
> >>> <timo...@getintheloop.eu>wrote:
>
> >>> > > But you can do it on session termination (which is what you probably
> >>> > > want):
>
> >>>http://scala-tools.org/mvnsites-snapshots/liftweb/lift-webkit/scalado...
>
> >>> > > Checkout the method:
>
> >>> > > registerCleanupFunc
>
> >>> > > Cheers, Tim
>
> >>> > > On Oct 5, 8:54 am, Viktor Klang <viktor.kl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:50 AM, jack <jack.wid...@gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
>
> >>> > > > > I would like to call a function when the browser is closed. How
> >>> do I
> >>> > > > > do this?
>
> >>> > > > You cannot reliably do this.
>
> >>> > > > --
> >>> > > > Viktor Klang
>
> >>> > > > Blog: klangism.blogspot.com
> >>> > > > Twttr: viktorklang
>
> >>> > > > Lift Committer - liftweb.com
> >>> > > > AKKA Committer - akkasource.org
> >>> > > > Cassidy - github.com/viktorklang/Cassidy.git
> >>> > > > SoftPub founder:http://groups.google.com/group/softpub
>
> >>> > --
> >>> > Jack
>
> >> --
> >> Jack
>
> > --
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>
> --
> Jack
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