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setTimeout() not working?

 
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I'm trying to do a very simple thing... I have an IFrame that I want to refresh every x number of seconds. To do that I have the following on a .jsp page that is included in another .jsp page:



What's happening is that the iframe is only ever loaded once. I've tried using:



and explicitly setting the src of my iframe, but that results in the src action being called twice - once when the iframe loads and once when the setTimeout() is called for the first (and last) time. Am I misunderstanding somethign about how setTimeout() is supposed to work? I'm testing this on IE 6 on Windows XP. Thanks!

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I think you are after setInterval and not setTimeout....

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You might want to use refresh meta tag instead of setInterval
 
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Thanks guys - the setInterval was what I was looking for since I just want to refresh a particular iframe. So this is working... sort of... My I fram relaods and calls my refresh-alerts servlet which is great. The servlet sets a session variable called "new-alerts" which I then want to use to update the html in a <span>. Here's the code... It doesn't work because the variables aren't refreshed whan I reload my iframe.



And elsewhere in my page...


I know I can't reference a session variable from my javascript and my scriptlet code gets compiled at runtime and never recompiles because it never refreshes (the iframe is all that refreshes). My question is how can I get the "val" variable to dynamically display the value getting set in my servlet? Hope this makes sense... I'm sure there's something simple I'm missing.
 
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This is <%= newAlerts != null ? newAlerts.intValue() : 0 %> serverside code, only gets fired when the page loads from the server. I guessing you know that. If the value is in the iframe, you can use javascript to set the value such as

parent.functionName("theNewInfo");

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Thanks for the reply Eric. I'm not sure I follow you when You say "if the value is in the iframe." Do you mean if it is within the <iframe></iframe> tags?

One idea I tried that actually works, but which looks like garbage is to have another iframe that has as its source a jsp which just has the following on it:



The iframe looks like:



Then in my reloadNotifications() function I do the following:


This works - the numbers update - because the server side scriptlet code get's reloaded when the ifram reloads. The only problem is look and feel - blech.
 
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Ok guys - here's the final solution... In JSP #1 I have the following:



JSP #2 is the result of the call to "/drm/actions/refresh-alerts" as a Struts action. Essentially the content of the notificationFram ifram is this jsp...



So my reloadNotifications() call reloads the content of "frameData" and then I set the html contnet of the "myStuff" span to the html content of my iframe. Works like a charm!

Thanks everyone for their attention and help!
 
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Try it...
Here is a problem:
parent.notificationFrame.window.location.reload();
This operation is asynchronious for the main documents, so you are likely sometimes get an error here:
str = window.frames['notificationFrame'].document.getElementById('frameData').innerHTML;
, if element "frameData" is not loaded yet.
I would say that chnages you need should be in the document loaded into iframe:
1. add the following inside the head tag - this will cause a page to refresh every 10 seconds:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10">

2. add onload handler to the body, doing something like:
parent.document.getElementById("myStuff").innerHTML=document.getElementById('frameData').innerHTML;
[ August 08, 2006: Message edited by: Yuriy Fuksenko ]
 
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