Robert Koberg wrote:
>Another thought:
>
>var action_xxx = eval("document.formName.cocoon-action-xxx");
>
Won't something like
document.formName['cocoon-action-xxx'] work? :-?
IIRC, javascript had syntax like this...
Vadim
>-Rob
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Robert Koberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:58 AM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: RE: Invoking Cocoon actions via JavaScript
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>You could loop over the form's element array, use a switch statement
>>and use the
>>name string as a case match to set up your action input element objs in some
>>kind of body onload init function.
>>
>>var action_xxx;
>>var action_yyy;
>>var elems = frmObj.elements;
>>for (var i=0; i<elems.length; i++) {
>>switch (elems[i].name)
>>case "cocoon-action-xxx":
>> action_xxx = elems[i];
>>case "cocoon-action-yyy":
>> action_yyy = elems[i];
>>}
>>}
>>
>>best,
>>-Rob
>>
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Hunsberger, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:28 AM
>>>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>>>Subject: Invoking Cocoon actions via JavaScript
>>>
>>>
>>>One of our developers has run into an issue that I can't see an easy
>>>solution to. However, I also can't believe that no one else has run into
>>>the problem.
>>>
>>>We have a form where we are using IE 5.5 (and above) DHTML to enable drop
>>>and drag editing to reorder fields. As the result of a drop, we determine
>>>some positional values, place these values into the form and then attempt to
>>>submit the form to the server where the values will be placed in a database.
>>>In order to submit the form, the JavaScript code has to invoke the proper
>>>HTML action for the form, which is named using the Cocoon standard
>>>"cocoon-action-xxxx" format. Since JavaScript attempts to resolve the
>>>action name as an JavaScript object it eventually turns a string of this
>>>format into three object names separated by two minus signs and
>>>subsequently blows up trying to subtract non-existent JavaScript objects
>>>from each other.
>>>
>>>One obvious fix would be to change Cocoon to not use "-" in the action
>>>names. Given that this would break just about every Cocoon implementation in
>>>the world I'm hoping that someone has run into this before and found a work
>>>around on the JavaScript side of the world?
>>>
>>>Peter Hunsberger
>>>
>>>Phone: 901-495-5252
>>>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>>
>>>
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