STUPENDOUS! Thank you Anthony! Is there a wiki or Q&A site somewhere for
these little tidbits of knowledge? The manual is fantastic but too
exhaustive for a quick answer for me anyway... if not maybe I'll build one
on web2py;)
On Sunday, August 4, 2013 8:21:52 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote:
>
>
> So the usual button to redirect to another page I use this
>>
>> <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary"
>> onclick="location.href='{{=URL('gameTime')}}'">Done with my squares</button>
>>
>>
>> What I am trying to do is click a button that does NOT redirect. If I
>> use a function in defauly.py that has no view in the URL field above, it
>> loads the generic view as advertised. Grrr. Isn't there just a simple way
>> to suppress calling the generic view? Just leave the view and retreat into
>> the controller for a little code parsing? ;)
>>
>
> First, generic views are disabled by default (though enabled on localhost
> in the welcome app via a line in db.py). Second, views are only called if
> your controller action returns a dictionary -- so just don't return a
> dictionary.
>
> <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" onclick="jQuery.ajax(
> '{{=URL('gameTime')}}');">Done with my squares</button>
>
> def gameTime():
> [do something]
> return 'OK'
>
> Anthony
>
>
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