* Re: Simple ocamljs example
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@ 2007-11-26 18:33 ` Jake Donham
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From: Jake Donham @ 2007-11-26 18:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Peter Gregory wrote:
> I've been trying to work through a very simple example just to try out
> ocamljs. Simply, I want to provide a function that changes the colour
> of some text.
OK, there is no reason in principle that this shouldn't work but I
should warn you that so far I have only used OCamljs for a Firefox
extension, not for web pages.
> I expected that if I had function named f in the ocaml side then I would
> be able to call it with f() in the JS side.
Not quite; names are mangled, values are wrapped up in modules, and the
calling convention is different (to account for currying), so you should
use the same mechanism you'd use for calling C code: on the ML side,
register a value with Callback.register; and on the Javascript side, use
caml_named_value to look up a registered value and caml_callback{,2,3,N}
to call through the value. Sorry, I forgot to write this up in the docs.
> I also assumed that Mozilla.Document.d was the document.
> [...] Document.d [... becomes ...] (oc$Mozilla$[29][0])
If you look back to the definitions of oc$Mozilla (and Document$553 or
whatever it is called for you) you'll see that this boils down to
"document" as you wanted. Modules are compiled as Javascript arrays
containing their values.
There is one more problem: the Mozilla module tries to get references to
a bunch of XPCOM interfaces and classes when it starts up, and this
fails in an ordinary browser environment. Here is a version of your
example that works for me (in Linux Firefox), not using the Mozilla module:
------ ocajs.ml
module Element =
struct
type t
external setAttribute : t -> string -> string -> unit = "#setAttribute"
end
module Document =
struct
type t
let (d : t) = Ocamljs.var "document"
external getElementById : t -> string -> Element.t = "#getElementById"
end
let changecolour () =
let e = Document.getElementById Document.d "myid" in
Element.setAttribute e "color" "red"
;;
Callback.register "changecolour" changecolour;
------ index.html
<html>
<script type="text/javascript" src="ocajs.js"></script>
<body>
<p><font id="myid" color="blue"> HELLO WORLD </font></p>
<form>
<input type="button" value="Change Colour"
onclick='caml_callback(caml_named_value("changecolour"), 0)'>
</form>
</body>
</html>
------
The 0 argument in caml_callback is the Javascript representation of the
empty tuple (but for unit arguments it doesn't matter what you pass
since they are never looked at).
Jake
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