> Here's the problem: During an AJAX callback (request, update or script)
> sometimes a component unrelated to the one making the callback needs to
> be repainted.  Normally this happens as the result of an announcement.
> While announcements serve to decouple the components they also prevent
> the source of the announcement from knowing to cause this other
> component to paint.
>
> Basically this motivates using Comet but I don't like Comet and find
> that I don't need Comet's level of "server push" for any of my
> applications.  What I need is simply the way tack a little extra
> javascript on the end of AJAX calls...
>
> My solution: Repaintable in the Cincom Public Store Repository.  (This
> package uses JQuery.)  It is a very simple framework so easily abandoned
> if it is the wrong thing to do :-)  Here's how it works:  Components
> subclass RPRepaintable (or you merge RPRepaintable's methods into your
> component hierarchy if that isn't possible).  You must also use
> RPSession or a subclass as your session class for your application.
> When a component wants to append javascript onto the end of the current
> response to an AJAX request it: