[Dojo-interest] Dojo callback problem

[shaun_stanworth at wordbank.com]

For 1) have a look at setInterval.

At 05:33 PM 03/01/2007, you wrote:
>Hi this is Purnima Venkatram.  I am new to dojo. I just started using
>  it. I am using dojo with struts2. I have two doubts.
>
>  1) What i need is on clicking a particular button , a timer to go off
>  which periodically pulls data from an Action class. All i could find
>  was dojo.lang.setTimeout but this calls a function after a delay.. I
>  would need to set a loop and call dojo.lang.setTimeout multiple times
>  till I want to pull the data. Can the dojo.animation.setTimer be 
> used for this ?
>
>  2) How do I get the Action class to return values and access them in
>  the callback function provided in the dojo.io.bind ? I want to return
>  3 variables from my struts2 Action class to my callback function.
>  Normally without callback function , I would have defined getter
>  methods for each variable and then used the s:property value="" tag
>  to get the particular variable. But if I want to access them in the
>  callback function , then how do I do it..
>
>  Please help.
>
>  Thank you.
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