I just struggled through (once again) trying to use PeriodicalUpdater to do what it says on the label while making a prototype of a chat- room application. It worked fine, as long as I was willing to accept complete updates of the entire DIV full of posts. When I tried to optimize the application to only return updates *newer than* the last successful update, I could not figure out how to get a variable to update within the context of the PU, and thus gave up and rolled my own updater using PE.
var pollChat = function(){ new Ajax.Updater('posts','chat.php',{ parameters:{ latest:$('latest').value}, insertion:'bottom',evalScripts:true } ); } pollChat(); new PeriodicalExecuter(pollChat,3); This gets me the updated value of 'latest' every time, but doesn't get me the decay behavior (unless I was to roll that myself as well). So am I swimming upstream with PU here? Is this just not what it was meant to do? I am mostly happy with the way I ended up here, but I'm still curious why this was so hard in the first place. Thanks in advance, Walter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---