Care to share your revelation with me/us?
Is it because when defined with "var" no global variable is defined and so the
class instance (STUFF) is not accessible in the HTML?
Cheers, Daniel
On 21.01.2010, at 00:21, hairbo wrote:
> Hey Aaron,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Let me just say...OMFG.
>
> I did (and usually have done) this:
>
> window.addEvent('domready',function(){
> var STUFF = new MyClass();
> });
>
> ...instead of this:
>
> window.addEvent('domready',function(){
> STUFF = new MyClass();
> });
>
> sigh. Thanks for the help
>
>
>
> On Jan 20, 4:39 pm, Aaron Newton <aa...@iminta.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:36 PM, hairbo <bmuel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Okay, there may be things here that I don't understand, so
>>> apologies...
>>
>>> 1) I thought this function was supposed to be able to handle a mix of
>>> HTML and JS, and would be smart enough to evaluate any JS it finds in
>>> the returned data. If this is the case (as it does appear to be),
>>> then removing the script tag would surely break.
>>
>> This is the case; it should script the scripts from the response (which is
>> why you don't see it if you log the response html) and then evaluates it
>> after updating your element.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> 2) It turns out that my problem was the JS I had returned wasn't being
>>> evaluated because it didn't recognize a Mootools class I had
>>> instantiated. This I don't think I understand. I created a class,
>>> like this:
>>
>>> var MyClass = new Class({
>>
>>> ...bla bla bla...
>>
>>> });
>>
>>> MyClass.implement (new Options, new Events);
>>
>>> ...then, I did this in the page:
>>
>>> window.addEvent('domready',function(){
>>> var STUFF = new MyClass();
>>> });
>>
>>> I expected that the JS being returned by my Ajax page would be able to
>>> do this:
>>
>>> STUFF.subMethod();
>>
>>> ...but that failed. I don't get why it failed, though, since I'm able
>>> to just create a regular JS function on the page, and reference
>>> *that*, like this:
>>
>>> function myFunction () {}
>>
>>> ...and then my JS in the AJAX response is this:
>>> myFunction()
>>
>>> Why does that second example work, and the first not work? What basic
>>> JS principle am I missing?
>>
>> This is where we can't help you so much. You need to use console (firebug)
>> and start logging things you are expecting to be present to get to the
>> bottom of it. I can say that Form.Request is well tested and works (I use it
>> constantly)...
