Fotiman - 1:38 pm on Sep 13, 2010 (gmt 0)

I'm not sure I totally understand what you're trying to do. Can you clarify a bit how the JavaScript PNG animation works?

Here's how I would expect this to work.
1. You have a page that loads in the browser, which has the JavaScript functions need to animate a PNG
2. You have an AJAX connection that is polling the server for updates
3. You would have a callback handler for the AJAX method that would determine what logic to take.

For example:

function animateHealing() { // This code animates some images } function animateAttacked() { // This code animates some images } function updateFromServer(data) { switch(data) { case 'heal': animateHealing(); break; case 'attacked': animateAttacked(); break; } // resume polling setTimeout(requestUpdate, 0); } function requestUpdate() { $.get('serverUpdates.php', {/*Any data for server*/}, updateFromServer); }

Note, that's really just sort of a pseudo code example. The details of how often to request updates is not covered in this example (you'd probably also want to look into something like long-polling [en.wikipedia.org].