Re: [Dynapi-Help] Would you like to able to clone() and persist() DynLayers?

[Robin B. <ro...@re...>]

In article <200...@we...>, Raymond
Irving <xw...@ya...> writes
>Hello Everyone,
>
>I was just wondering if you would like to be able to
>clone and persist layers?
......
interesting concept, exactly the opposite of what I have been doing with
the new 2.9 IOElement. What I (and others) have always needed is the
ability to communicate back to the server to get data ie fill in the
user's partially completed form or dynamically change the contents of a
dropdown. I consider clientside javascript incomplete without reliable
reverse communication.

With 2.9 I can now do that using a CGI to query the database and return
a mini document with javascript variables holding the needed data. The
call back completion function then allows me to pain the static image.

Thanks for all the effort in making this possible. I just wish we had
better documentation and that dynapi wasn't so invasive. You have to
grok the whole concept before things start to make sense. Why for
example does using a hidden IOElement require me to call the main
document onLoad using "dynapi.onLoad(myOnLoad);". I find if I don't use
that my hidden_io is regarded as busy.

This lack of orthogonality is my only (minor) criticism; probably my
grasp is as yet incomplete. 
-- 
Robin Becker