Passing javascript variables to applets

[HelenY]

Hi everyone,

I have a field, whose value I would like to pass to an applet(on the same page) as a parameter. I dont have the value of the field when the page is loaded (it is selected by the user), and I would prefer not to reload the page. Is there any way to do this?

Thanks

Helen

 

[SashiRaveendran]

This may work, try putting your applet within div tags, give the div an ID then when you want to refresh the applet
call a function that gets your new value and the does the following:

ID.innerHTML = ""; // this should destroy the applet
var strApplet;
strApplet= &quot;<applet name...
strApplet += &quot;<param value=&quot; + yourNewValue + &quot;>&quot;
strApplet += &quot;</applet>&quot;
ID.innerHTML = strApplet; // this should cause it to reload

This MAY work on IE

 

[GIGN]

You can set global variables, and call public methods on an Applet.
...
var applet_1 = document.applets[0];
applet_1.setSomething(args);
...