For starters, im a total novice when it comes to javascript so please bearwith me.
What I have i a web page that makes use of PHP and the Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater to launch an external PHP script and unpdate the source web page. This is working wonderfully for the most part. However I wanted to add some functionality to the page. With that in mind I wanted to give the user the ability to run some external commands at the press of a button so to handle this I used Ajax.Updater and this also works fine in terms of starting the external processes I need started. In an affort to prevent multipl instances of the external commands to be started, I disable the buttons after they are pressed but I would like them to be reenabled automatically when the process that they started completes so the process can be run again. Ive tried using the onComplete and onSuccess options to re-enable the buttons but it doesnt seem to be working for me. Since I am new to JS I think its likely because I am not using them properly but the documentation is a bit dificult for me as a newbie to grasp. I have a function defined in the head of the document and I call that function to disable the buttons onClick, which it does. I was hoping however that when the Ajax.Updater was done I could use onComplete or onSuccess to call the function to enable the buttons but cant seem to get it to work. Ideally what I would like to do is I have php script called by Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater set a php session variable. As this script monitors the actions started by the buttons the session variable is continually updated and what I would like to do is have onComplete or onSuccess re-enable the buttons when the session variable is a certain value. Can someone be so kind as to better explaine, in simple terms how I could accomplish this? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
