Re: [Dynapi-Help] Another newbie ? re: setURL() in IE answered!

[Sam D. <sa...@eb...>]

Mark,

Thanks a ton! For anybody browsing the archives or anything, Mark's fix
worked. To repeat,
use setURL() -after- you've added the layer to the DynAPI.document
object. Thanks again!

Sam

Mark Pratt wrote:
> 
> Sam,
> 
> I have encountered this error, but it dissappeared as I continued development on my
> widget.
> I think the solution is to not use the setURL method until the layer has been added to the
> DynAPI.document.
> By swopping the last 2 lines of your code, all should be OK.
> 
> e.g
> 
> DynAPI.onLoad = function ( )
> {
>   testlayer = new DynLayer(null,100,100,143,16,"#ffffff");
>   DynAPI.document.addChild(testlayer);
>   testlayer.setURL("ext.html");
> }
> 
> Good Look
> 
> Mark
> 
> Sam Douglass wrote:
> 
> > Hi, sorry to post a newbie question here, but I'm trying to
> > load an external HTML file into a dynlayer and am having a problem
> > that I don't think I saw addressed in the list archives available over
> > the Web. I have one simple layer into which I want to load a simple
> > external file:
> >
> > <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><!--
> > DynAPI.setLibraryPath('Core/lib2.0/')
> >
> > DynAPI.include('core.api.*')
> > DynAPI.include('core.ext.loadhtml.js')
> >
> > DynAPI.onLoad=function() {
> >   testlayer = new DynLayer(null,100,100,143,16,"#ffffff")
> >   testlayer.setURL("ext.html")
> >   DynAPI.document.addChild(testlayer)
> > }
> > //--></SCRIPT>
> >
> > This works great in Netscape 4.73, but doesn't work in IE 5.0. I think I
> > tracked down the error, but I'm not sure what to do about it. In the
> > file
> > "core.ext.loadhtml.js" there is a property called
> > "DynAPI.setURL.current"
> > which appears to be initialized to null (last line of the file). This is
> > causing an error here on line 18, I think:
> >
> > 15: DynLayer.prototype.onLoad=function(e) {
> > 16:   var lyr
> > 17:   if (is.ie) {
> > 18:     lyr=document.all[DynLayer.prototype.setURL.current].lyrobj
> > 19:     lyr.elm.innerHTML=e
> > 20:   } else if (is.dom) {
> >
> > I'm getting "document.all[...].lyrobj is not an object" which seems to
> > fit
> > with using a null object as a reference into the document.all[] array.
> > So
> > the "current" propery should be a layer id tag, but which one? Or am I
> > way
> > off on what's happening here?
> >
> > Anyway, if anybody read this far and knows how to make this work in
> > IE, I'd be immensely grateful for any help. If this is a known bug
> > that's
> > being worked on that's not up on SourceForge yet, or if I'm doing
> > something
> > stupid like not including the right files or something, sorry about the
> > dumb post, but I would still appreciate a heads up. Thanks!
> >
> > Sam Douglass
> >
> > PS The API is awesome, and tremendously useful! Thanks to the
> > development
> > team for all the hard work they've put into it.
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