Hello,

if i press F5 (or cmd+r) the web site refreshes correctly but my application restarts? Is this normal behavior or can i handle this refresh-event? I think i don't want the application to restart.

In my case: A user is logged in. If i press F5 everything is reseted and the user needs to re-login. Also all forms are going to be destroyed on refresh (F5).

Thanks, Andreas

hi Andreas

why are you wanting to refresh the page? if things have changed, you can use a timer to do the update on GUI elements (updating objects, reload of data, or whatever..)

we use this here to update data and visuals associated.. works like a charm.

the timer is on the 'system' tab of the EWB ide.

.. Bruno

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Andy23 wrote:

Hello,

if i press F5 (or cmd+r) the web site refreshes correctly but my application restarts? Is this normal behavior or can i handle this refresh-event? I think i don't want the application to restart.

In my case: A user is logged in. If i press F5 everything is reseted and the user needs to re-login. Also all forms are going to be destroyed on refresh (F5).

Thanks, Andreas

Hello Bruno,

thanks for your reply.

I don't want to refresh the page. But properly my users just try to press F5 to refresh. Then the whole page reloads completely. So this is normal behavior?

Thanks, Andreas

I'm not an expert but I think that is normal and all browsers would do the same (a forced refresh), and I suspect you will not have any way to override that behavior. But I might be wrong. I'm still not sure why your users want to manually 'refresh' if they are still logged in to the system.


Andy23 wrote:

Hello Bruno,

thanks for your reply.

I don't want to refresh the page. But properly my users just try to press F5 to refresh. Then the whole page reloads completely. So this is normal behavior?

Thanks, Andreas

Bruno Larochelle @ Environment Canada wrote:

> I don't want to refresh the page. But properly my users just try to
> press F5 to refresh. Then the whole page reloads completely. So this
> is normal behavior?

It is normal, yes. EWB makes a "single page application" which means
you stay in it all the time. Refresh means start over.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3527041/prevent-any-form-of-page-refresh-using-jquery-javascript


The main thing you might want to do is play with the #page attributes
to handle the "back" button. You shouldn't stop them completely, but it
helps accidental back's from discaring your application. How to do this
has been discussed around here before (I forget the term to search for
right now!).

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Matthew Jones

Andy,

<< I don't want to refresh the page. But properly my users just try to press F5 to refresh. Then the whole page reloads completely. So this is normal behavior?  >>

Absolutely.  The user can kill your application just like they can kill any task in Windows, and Refresh is one way of doing so.  If you don't want your users to do this, then you'll have to be sure to inform them of the consequences (possibly lost data, etc.)  You can also use a TTimer in your application to periodically save data to local storage, if you're concerned about data loss:

http://www.elevatesoft.com/manual?action=topics&id=ewb2&section=using_local_storage

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com