Christopher Jordan schrieb: > Thanks so much for responding. I did manage to work around the > problem, by calling the function with the ajax call first and then the > function that uses the return object second. Both ways work, so it's > nice to see that if I do something like that again, I could just add > an 'async: false' to my ajax call, but I'm guessing that's not the > preferred method. It should be preferred because synced calls can block the browser for a long time (in the worst case), something you'd most likely want to avoid.
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