getMovie() does not find the movie after dynamic DOM modification

[kongo09]

This continues a post I did in the 1.x section of the forum - but since I use 2.x, I feel it is more appropriate here: http://megazine.mightypirates.de/forum/index.php/topic,467.msg3375.html#msg3375. Apologies for the cross-posting.

I'm dynamically modifying a page/DOM that contains a MegaZine3 2.x book/player. This involves taking out the player, updating it in the background (i.e. generating a new book) and then putting it back. Essentially, it is a full reload - something that apparently is not possible right now throught the interface.

The problem is, that the getMovie() function in megazine.js fails in Internet Explorer after the operation. Essentially, JavaScript throws an error of

Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'Megazine.getMovie()' is null or not an object

As a side-effect, this also kills some seam remoting I use on the page.

Following the suggestion found in the 1.x forum, I tried the

document.getElementById(MegaZine.moviename)

call instead. This eliminates the error, but calls to the object still don't show any effect.

Any ideas?
kongo09

[kongo09]

Apologies, I made a typo in the script. So replacing the getMovie() function in megazine.js with

Code: (javascript)

getMovie : function() { return document.getElementById([MegaZine.moviename]); },

makes the flipbook work, even after it has been removed from and reinserted into the DOM. Tested on IE 7 and FF 3.5.7

[Florian Nücke]

Works fine in all browsers I tested, so I guess I'll include that in future releases. One question, though: are the brackets in the function call really necessary? I.e. does it have to be
document.getElementById([MegaZine.moviename]);
or would
document.getElementById(MegaZine.moviename);
be fine, too?

I realize that both variants work (at least directly after loading the book, didn't try fiddling with the DOM, admittedly), but just curious why you use the "arrayed" one. Thanks