actually that made things even more confusing :P
for the record, I've found a solution to my problem, it doesn't do what I
first wanted but it works really well.
basically I used the var xhr=$ajax; solution and added:
$("#thing").keypress(function(){xhr.abort();});
this aborts all previous requests on a new key input (But only the requests
in this function, I know.)
the solution is suboptimal but it's okay. it'd be great if the ajax function
came with a killall() so when you want to stop any requests you could just
call $.ajaxkillall();
On 8/22/07, lordb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> You can easily prevent execution of ajax request with a flag.
>
> When you make an Ajax call the flag is set to 1 (if its allready to 1
> you don't launch request)
>
> In the callback you just turn back the flag to 0 and you can perform a
> quick test to for comparing the last search made width the actual
> search parameter
> (if different you force a new call else it's done)
>
> 'Hope that's help you
>
> On Aug 22, 8:59 am, "Tamm Sjödin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's a search function that I trigger on key up. It doesn't work bad
> it's
> > just a risk of previous requests finishing after the last one, meaning
> the
> > content of the result box being replaced again but by the wrong stuff.
> > Stopping all ajax calls was just one of my solutions, one that seemed
> easy
> > to implement if there was a way to do so. since no one seems very
> confident
> > in that I'm just look for some other way and assume this cannot be done.
>
>
