another thought is that onSuccess isnt being fired ...
Try to onSuccess: function(evt) {
alert(evt.responseText); and see if it reposnds with some html or whatever
your php script is echoing
})
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Lee Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 4:15 PM
Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: In a bind...
>
> I'm not sure if this is exactly relevant to what your problem is
> here, but in cases where I want to have access to current values
> while running a periodical update, I've had to resort to using
> PeriodicalExecuter and a separate function rather than the magical
> Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater. It isn't that much harder, but it does make
> it impossible to take advantage of the decay feature (unless you
> write your own).
>
> var pollChat = function(){
> new Ajax.Updater($('posts').down('table'),'chat.php',{
> parameters:{
> latest:$F('latest'),
> user:$F('user')
> },
> insertion:'bottom',
> evalScripts:true,
> onComplete:fixScroll
> });
> }
> $('posts').update('<table cellspacing="0"></table>');
> pollChat();
> $('message').observe('focus',getUser);
> $('message').activate();
> new PeriodicalExecuter(pollChat,3);
>
> Walter
>
> On Nov 5, 2008, at 10:58 AM, James Hoddinott wrote:
>
>>
>> 2008/11/5 Alex Mcauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>> does firebug report any error at all ...
>>
>> Not a thing.
>>
>>> you could also try to evalJs in the options and put the invoke
>>> inside the
>>> serverside script to see if its being fired there or not
>>
>> Yes I tried this but still no joy. By adding an alert() to the
>> onSuccess function I was able to see that the function does get called
>> but I think it still stalls on the invoke line.
>>
>> I have now just noticed this in the documentation for
>> PeriodicalUpdater:
>>
>> "Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater is not a specialization of Ajax.Updater,
>> despite its name. When using it, do not expect to be able to use
>> methods normally provided by Ajax.Request and "inherited" by
>> Ajax.Updater, such as evalJSON or getHeader. Also the onComplete
>> callback is hijacked to be used for update management, so if you
>> wish to be notified of every successful request, use onSuccess
>> instead (beware: it will get called before the update is
>> performed)."
>>
>> which, if I'm not mistaken, would suggest the root of my problem,
>> namely that the 'li.clickinc' elements just aren't available to be
>> observed at the time. So I thought I'd run the same thing through an
>> Ajax.Updater call but that also didn't work.
>>
>> --
>> James Hoddinott
>>
>> >
>
>
> >
>
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