<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Oh c’mon, no takers?<div><br></div><div>Nobody has faced this before?</div><div><br></div><div>I can’t believe something so easy in WebObjects is so hard in Seaside. (Ok, that was below the belt). </div><div><br></div><div>In WO, all I have to do is drop an “AjaxWOSubmitButton” component on the page and then bind the “functionName” binding. I can immediately call that name in Javascript from the client side and anything in the “action” binding is performed and all the form bindings are synchronized. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Dec 15, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Aaron Rosenzweig <<a href="mailto:aaron@cocoanutstech.com">aaron@cocoanutstech.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Is there a way to “name” a PTAjax callback so that it can be conveniently invoked from javascript?</div><div><br></div><div>Situation:</div><div>Want to effectively have a submit button (or hyperlink) on the page with an on click Updater callback… then from something programmatically on the page… *click* that link.</div><div><br></div><div>Problems:</div><div>1) Having a hidden button or link to click is not elegant (I feel dirty)</div><div><br></div><div>2) It doesn’t always work. For various reasons, doing a domElement.click() is not the same as a human hand doing a click because it doesn’t generate a full mouse click event.</div><div><br></div><div>Thought:</div><div>There must be a way to setup the following:</div><div>A) Create a PTAjax object with a name that is a global javascript variable on the client side (web browser)</div><div><br></div><div>B) You would provide the “javascript function name” a “seaside callback” a “HTML form ID or form name” so that synchronization of form variables can take place and finally an “update container ID”</div><div><br></div><div>C) You could just invoke it from your javascript code and know that it will safely update the server.</div><div><br></div><div>Does this make sense?</div><div></div><div></div><div>
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<span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',helvetica,San-Serif;font-size:11px;color:#b2b2b2;"><b style="color:#888888">e:</b> <a href="mailto:aaron@chatnbike.com" title="email Aaron" style="text-decoration:none; border-bottom:1px dotted #b2b2b2;color:#b2b2b2">aaron@chatnbike.com</a> <b style="color:#888888">t:</b> (301) 956-2319</span>
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