[dev] Dynamic sidebar menu elements not refreshing

[Rick Emery]

I decided to start a new thread with a subject that makes sense for the
archives.

The folder list in my sidebar stopped updating about a week ago. I saw that a
user preference was added a couple of months ago to handle the update interval
(I follow the CVS list and updates pretty closely; don't know how I missed
this), but it was set with the default of every 5 minutes. So, I viewed the
source of the frame and saw this at the bottom:

<script language="Javascript1.5" type="text/javascript">
var MenuUpdateHandler = {
    onLoad: function(result)
    {
        // Run the javascript we got back.
        eval(result);
    }
};

function update()
{
    var client = new HTTPClient();
   
client.init("https://www.emery.homelinux.net/horde/services/portal/menu.php?httpclient=1");

    try {
        client.asyncGET(MenuUpdateHandler);
    } catch (e) {
        // Don't do anything on errors; probably a transient failure,
        // and we'll try again after the next interval.
    }

    // Schedule the next update.
    window.setTimeout('update();', 300 * 1000);
}

// Update the menu if set in user prefs.
      window.setTimeout('update();', 300 * 1000);
</script>

I went into my preferences and changed the interval from the default 5 minutes
to 1 minute. After that, the source was identical, except the "300 * 1000"
entries were changed to "60 * 1000", but still no updating. I've included the
segments of the source above in the hope that somebody will see what's causing
my system to not update, because I don't get it.

By the way, the javascript to collapse/expand the sidebar works as expected,
and there are no errors logged in my firefox javascript console (the sidebar
fails to update in firefox, konqueror, and IE).

Thanks,
Rick
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Rick Emery

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