[Seaside] components and iframes ?

[Avi Bryant]

On Jun 28, 2004, at 7:13 AM, Romain Robbes wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are working on an application in which we'd like to have components
> refreshed independently in the same window. So we wanted to embed these
> components in iframes, and have some javascript to refresh them 
> periodically.
>
> We thus started to do stuff in this way, using seaside's 
> #urlForAction: method
> to get the src parameter of the iframe tag, but we have a problem, 
> which is
> that seasides does not generate only the component, but a whole
> application page when the browser fetches the url. Hence we have an 
> infinite
> loop of iframes ...
>
> So do you think it would involve significant work to allow this 
> behavior ?

If you are using Seaside 2.5, what you want is to start a new instance 
of the RenderLoop for each iframe.  Each RenderLoop has its own root 
component.  So, if I were setting up iframes, I might do something like

src := html urlForAction: [WARenderLoop new root: MyComponent new; run].

Avi