On Oct 5, 12:41 pm, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ....... > > > You certainly need to get on speed with webdevelopment. Otherwise you will > > fail miserably. > > > There are several options here: > > > - rendering a server-side image, deliver that embedded in a html-page > > > - render using html tags like DIV and the like, which allow for positioned > > colored rectangles and text, in pixel coordinates > > > - canvas tag, to render 2D-drawing-commands > > > - embedded SVG > > > All that can be enriched with AJAX to have that fancy > > realtime-update-thingy. > > > Diez > > simple rectangles are pretty easy though. I did a progress bar > herehttp://www.jessikat.plus.com/pbar.htmlwith a bit of javascript. > > The other side of the information usually involves ajax call backs to > determine > how much of the job has been done etc etc. I seem to remember doing that for a > project a while back. As I recall we had a cgi script that did > > action "start" start off a long running job that detached itself from the web > server so the response could be made short > > action "query" find out from an output file how much of the job has been done. > > A javascript timeout periodically performed the query request and used the > response to update the ticker. > -- > Robin Becker- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
That is pretty much exactly what I want! Can I ask how you have presented the bar on the page i.e. embedded into a canvas? because I can't get this to work on netscape 7 (which is a requirement) and wondered if there was a way to get around this? Cheers Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
