Access variable defined in a script which is loaded dynamically

[jeet_sen]

Hi,
My external javascript test.js contains a variable definition var a =
"Hello,world!!";
I dynamically loaded the script test.js using the following fucntion:

function loadScript(url)
{
var e = document.createElement("script");
e.src = url;
e.type="text/javascript";
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(e);
}

Function call : loadScript("test.js");

Now the problem is, though my script test.js gets loaded but I cannot
access the variable defined in the script.

Can anyone help me out ?

Regards,
Suvajit

[Martin Honnen]

jeet_sen wrote:

Now the problem is, though my script test.js gets loaded but I cannot
access the variable defined in the script.

Loading happens asynchronously so don't expect to be able to access the
variables after the loadScript call. Rather you need to wait till the
script has been loaded. Or you need to have the loaded script execute
whatever you want to execute.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[jeet_sen]

Hi Martin,
Actually my script contains an object literal , which is actually my
data source.
I cannot perform any action from within the loaded script. After
loading the script dynamically I planned to source in the object
literal data.
My test.js looks like this:
TABLE_ITEMS = {
'name' : 'GS60H',
'level' : 'Library',
'total' : 500,
'failed' : 20,
'waive' : 5
};
After loading test.js I wanted to read in TABLE_ITEMS.

Is there is some way out . Please suggest any alternate plan.

Regards,
Suvajit

[Martin Honnen]

jeet_sen wrote:

I cannot perform any action from within the loaded script. After
loading the script dynamically I planned to source in the object
literal data.

You can do that but you have to wait until the script has been loaded
and executed. IE supports the onreadystatechange event handler, Mozilla
a load event listener

function loadScript (url, callback) {
var scriptElement = document.createElement('script');
scriptElement.type = 'text/javascript';
scriptElement.src = url;
if (typeof scriptElement.addEventListener != 'undefined') {
scriptElement.addEventListener(
'load',
function (evt) { callback(); },
false
);
}
else if (typeof scriptElement.attachEvent != 'undefined') {
scriptElement.attachEvent(
'onreadystatechange',
function () {
if (scriptElement.readyState == 'complete') {
callback();
}
}
);
}
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptElement);
}

loadScript(
'file.js',
function () { alert(GOD.name); }
);
Opera 8 however does not support those event handlers/listeners on the
script element, hopefully Opera 9 will do.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Jonas Raoni]

Martin Honnen wrote:

jeet_sen wrote:

I cannot perform any action from within the loaded script. After
loading the script dynamically I planned to source in the object
literal data.

You can do that but you have to wait until the script has been loaded
and executed. IE supports the onreadystatechange event handler, Mozilla
a load event listener

if (typeof scriptElement.addEventListener != 'undefined') {
scriptElement.addEventListener(
'load',
function (evt) { callback(); },
false
);
}

Another solution is to add a kind of notifier in the end of the script.

:
:
:
Loader.Notify('file.js');
--
Jonas Raoni Soares Silva
http://www.jsfromhell.com

[Randy Webb]

Jonas Raoni said the following on 3/7/2006 3:15 PM:

Another solution is to add a kind of notifier in the end of the script.

And that idea, to date, is the only reliable way to know a .js file has
loaded. At least to the point of the notifier.

--
Randy
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