Re: Executing JavaScript from AllegroServe

It sounds like you want to have the button send an http request to the 
Lisp web server, which then returns some Javascript code. You can then 
load the javascript into the window's environment. See:

Dynamically Loading External JavaScript Files
http://www.codehouse.com/javascript/articles/external/

-Earl


On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 05:12 PM, Robert Clark wrote:

> Say I have a web page that I've served up with AllegroServe (AS), and 
> the page has a button on it.  How do I click on the button and execute 
> CL code which in turn executes JavaScript codewithout serving up a new 
> page?
>
> Here's my real situation:
>   AS serves up a page with a JavaScript TreeView object in it, with 
> only the first level built (I don't want to build the whole tree - 
> it's too big!).  When the user clicks to expand one of the folders, I 
> want to execute CL code which generates JavaScript code to generate 
> the new nodes. (effectively onmouseclick="foo(folderID)", where foo() 
> is a CL function, which generates JavaScript like createNode(folder, 
> node1); createNode(folder, node2); ...).
>
>
> Bob Clark
>