Updating a table

[Antonio Delgado]

I was wondering if anybody could help me out a little. My goal is to
update some information about a system every 2-5 seconds. The
information needs to be displayed in some sort of table, but the size
of the table needs to be able to shrink and grow. The main problem
here is updating the table without refreshing the entire page and
making any clicking noises. I was thinking maybe I can put the table
in an iframe and use javascript somehow to update the iframe whenever
neccesary. If anybody has any ideas or suggestions I would greatly
appreciate it.

[steve stevo]

if the information is in a file formet - text file / xml file - then you
could just reload the xml file and refresh the table.

"Antonio Delgado" <ad******@tga.com> wrote in message
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I was wondering if anybody could help me out a little. My goal is to
update some information about a system every 2-5 seconds. The
information needs to be displayed in some sort of table, but the size
of the table needs to be able to shrink and grow. The main problem
here is updating the table without refreshing the entire page and
making any clicking noises. I was thinking maybe I can put the table
in an iframe and use javascript somehow to update the iframe whenever
neccesary. If anybody has any ideas or suggestions I would greatly
appreciate it.

[Antonio Delgado]

That is an idea, but the main emphasis is on the "silent refresh".
Since I don't know too much about javascript how would I go about
refreshing a table or an iframe containing the table without all of
the bells and whistles from the browser. Oh yeah, a piece of
information that I left out last time is I am using goforms with the
goahead server. That is the main reason I would like to use iframes,
because I know how to make the iframe refresh every couple of seconds
and load the generated page. The problem is every time the iframe
refresh IE makes an annoying noise. With that being said, I am not
committed to using iframes so any suggestions would be appreciated.

"steve stevo" <st***@stevosteve.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:<bi**********@news8.svr.pol.co.uk>...

if the information is in a file formet - text file / xml file - then you
could just reload the xml file and refresh the table.