Gadget resets?

Gadget resets?

• Christie Myburgh

  Don't worry about the flashing - that's a "feature" in Sidebar. I'll get around to creating a Repro soon.
  
  From past experience, you'll need to write the IFrame HTML to the Flyout body, not use a static IFrame and change it's URL.
  
  ie
  
  System.Gadget.Flyout.document.body.innerHTML="<IFRAME id='loginWindow' src='" + loginURL + "' ...>"
  
  

• ssboyz

  If I set an arbitary url instead of using loginURL -- it works fine, but trying to use loginURL results in navigation cancelled. I added some debug output and it seems to be coming back to my reset problem! (and the onreadystatechanged event being fired multiple times). I used DebugView and here is the trace of my gadget.

  Enter document.onreadystatechange
  Exit document.onreadystatechange
  Enter document.onreadystatechange
  	document completed, current state=''
  Enter document.onreadystatechange
  	document completed, current state='initial'
  	tried to get sessionID: 
  Exit document.onreadystatechange
  Exit document.onreadystatechange
  Enter beginLogin
  Enter getAuthToken
  	Built parameters
  	Sent request
  getAuthToken: got xmxlhttpresponse
  getAuthToken: token=a34591000e197c5fd4de70797f0bcf0a
  Enter gotAuthToken
  	loginURL='http://www.live.com'
  	Displayed flyout
  Exit gotAuthToken
  Exit getAuthToken
  Exit beginLogin
  Enter document.onreadystatechange
  Exit document.onreadystatechange
  Enter document.onreadystatechange
  	document completed, current state='wait_login'
  	tried to get sessionID: 
  Exit document.onreadystatechange
  Enter Flyout.onshow
  	Setting url to 'undefined'
  Exit Flyout.onshow
  

  Just for completeness here is my document.onreadystatechange function

  document.onreadystatechange = function()
  {  
   //try and get the debugWindow
   debug("Enter document.onreadystatechange");
  
   if (document.readyState == "complete")
   {
   debug(" document completed, current state='" + System.Gadget.Settings.read("GadgetState") + "'");
   
   switch(System.Gadget.Settings.read("GadgetState"))
   {
    case "initial":
    //...
    break;
    case "wait_login":
    //...
    break;
    case "loggedin":
    //...
    break;
    case "working":
    //...
    break;
    case undefined:
    case "":
    default:
    System.Gadget.Settings.write("GadgetState", "initial");
    document.onreadystatechange();
    return;
    break;
   };
   
   
   //check the session
   sessionID = System.Gadget.Settings.read("sessionID");
   debug(" tried to get sessionID: " + sessionID);
   if (sessionID == undefined | sessionID == "")
   {
    //...
   }
   else
   {
    //...
   }
    
   }
   
   debug("Exit document.onreadystatechange")
  }
  

  
  

• McWhirter

  Navigation cancelled... Is it only when loading that site Could it be a restriction on the site
  
  Gadget resets itself... What is it doing
  
  onreadystatecomplete... I've never seen it fire twice, could be related to the site. I'd just code around it in the way you mention.
  
  

• looplocal

  I get the Navigation cancelled for any site I try to navigate too (ie: www.live.com). I'm wondering if it is not the method I'm using to set the url in the iframe

   
  function doFlyout()
  {
  	debug("Enter doFlyout");
  	
  	System.Gadget.Settings.write("GadgetState", "wait_login");
  	
  	loginURL = "http://www.live.com";
  		
  	System.Gadget.Flyout.file = "login.htm";
  	System.Gadget.Flyout.show = true;
  	debug(" Displayed flyout");
  	
  	document.getElementById('logintext').innerHTTP = TEXT_WAIT_LOGIN;
  	document.getElementById('working').style.visibility = "hidden";
  	document.getElementById('donelogin').style.visibility = "visible";
  	
  	debug("Exit doFlyout");
  }
  
  System.Gadget.Flyout.onshow = function()
  {
  	debug("Enter Flyout.onshow");
  	var doc = System.Gadget.Flyout.document;
  	doc.getElementById("loginWindow").src = loginURL;
  	debug("Exit Flyout.onshow");
  }
  
  

  And on the note of the gadget resetting itself. It is very strange, it seems to flash as if it is redrawing itself but then it called onreadystatecomplete again (Actually it calls it twice, but only once with the readyState == "completed". The only thing I could think of is that it is being called when my xmlhttprequest gets a response back (but the handler for the xmlhttprequest.onreadystatecomplete does get called as it is supposed to, so perhaps that is not the problem).

  
  

• seco

  I think I figured out what was causing the problem with the gadget reseting itself.

  In my main gadget.htm form, I was using <a href="#"> </a> for interation. This was causing the gadget to 'reset' everytime you clicked on one.

  Thanks for the help though!

  
  
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