[jQuery] xhr.responseText isn't showing up when expected

[howardk]

Am I misunderstanding how $.ajax( { ..., asynch: false } is supposed
to work? I'm not seeing a responseText value immediately on returning
from the ajax call as I would expect.

Here's the relevant code:

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 var xhr = $.ajax( {
                        url:' getFontInfo.php',
                        data: 'font=' + fontFileName,
                        asynch: false
                } );

var fontName = xhr.responseText;
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fontName is empty when I break in Firebug just after the last line
above. If I break further down in the code, fontName gets filled out
to its expected value. This seems to be an Ajax-complete issue, but I
had thought setting asynch false would ensure I'd block on the Ajax
call until responseText showed up. Is that a incorrect assumption?

Howard