Re: [Chicken-users] ajax egg

[Daishi Kato]

At Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:48:43 -0700,
felix winkelmann wrote:
> 
> On 9/20/05, Daishi Kato <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is very nice.  I was going to build a sample application,
> > and found a limitation that the callback procedure is zero-argument
> > and cannot receive inputs such as events and form values.
> > As looking into prototype.js, there seems no (easy) way to
> > get events or values as parameters of REQUEST.
> > Am I missing something? Or this is just as is.
> > 
> 
> You can use `(current-request)' and `(argument ...)' to
> access any URL-encoded arguments. Moreover, 
> `(http:request-body ...)' will give you access to the
> request-body, in case of a POST request. Se the spiffy and
> http documentation.

Thanks for the pointers.

Hmm, (current-request) just gives me #f.
I will take a more look into it.

Do you know any way to pass events as parameters?
I would like to get key code that a user pressed in a browser.

BTW, here is a little fix:

--- ajax.scm.orig       2005-08-25 04:37:36.000000000 +0900
+++ ajax.scm    2005-09-20 19:07:25.000000000 +0900
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
 (define (remote-button text thunk . more)
   (let ((out (apply remote-action thunk more)))
     (case (ajax-output-format)
-      ((html) (sprintf "<button onclick=\"~a\">~a</a>" out text))
+      ((html) (sprintf "<button onclick=\"~a\">~a</button>" out text))
       (else `(button (@ (onclick ,out)) ,text)) ) ) )
 
 (define (remote-timer freq thunk . more)

Daishi