Re: [OT] Re: Displaying "Please Wait" message

2008-12-09 Thread RudyG
e Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Heh. Hrmph. Works under Safari/OSX. >> >> Gives me the heebie jeebies. >> >> >> --- On Tue, 12/9/08, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> From: Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >&g

RE: Displaying "Please Wait" message

2008-12-09 Thread Martin Gainty
Re: Displaying "Please Wait" message > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: user@struts.apache.org > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:34:13 -0500 > > One thing I have done in the past is to replace the submit button with > an animated gif that resembles a status bar. This keeps users

Re: [OT] Re: Displaying "Please Wait" message

2008-12-09 Thread Miguel
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 18:25, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heh. Hrmph. Works under Safari/OSX. > > Gives me the heebie jeebies. > > > --- On Tue, 12/9/08, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [OT] Re: Displaying "Please Wait" message

2008-12-09 Thread Dave Newton
Heh. Hrmph. Works under Safari/OSX. Gives me the heebie jeebies. --- On Tue, 12/9/08, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Displaying "Please Wait" message > To: "Struts Users Mail

Re: [OT] Re: Displaying "Please Wait" message

2008-12-09 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
That's exactly the behavior I expected... odd that I didn't see it (IE7 and FF3.0.4 on XP). I can buy it's browser-dependent, just odd to hear that FF3 would be different on OSX than on Windows. Oh well, that's just *MORE* support for the idea of not using document.write() after the page has

[OT] Re: Displaying "Please Wait" message

2008-12-09 Thread Dave Newton
--- On Tue, 12/9/08, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > [...] I actually expected the alert() to NOT work because > I figured the document.write() call was overwriting your > page, which would have made sense, but it appears > document.write() actually appends to the document. > I wouldn't swear to th

Re: Displaying "Please Wait" message

2008-12-09 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
RudyG wrote: function splashScreen() { document.write("Processing Data.Please Wait."); document.forms[0].submit(); return true; } Put an alert("test"); in place of your submit() line there... does the alert show up? I just tried in both FF and IE and in both cases i

Re: Displaying "Please Wait" message

2008-12-09 Thread RudyG
Hi EasyStrutser. Your option 2 is my fallback option. Also thanks to Wes who chimed in with the same suggestion. However, your option 3 sounds a little more interesting. Any chance you might have a link to some place that expands on that? Would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Rudy EasyStrutse

Re: [OT] Re: Displaying "Please Wait" message

2008-12-09 Thread RudyG
Hello Dave. I understand why you feel this may not be a Struts issue. However, the form I'm using in this JSP is a Struts form not an HTML form. As for Google search results I have gone through half of the trillion search results you are referring to and have not found a solution, yet. If you hav

Re: Displaying "Please Wait" message

2008-12-09 Thread Wes Wannemacher
One thing I have done in the past is to replace the submit button with an animated gif that resembles a status bar. This keeps users from double posting the form, and gives a bit of visual feedback to indicate to the user that he/she should wait. If you want something more, you should take a look

Re: Displaying "Please Wait" message

2008-12-09 Thread EasyStrutser
RudyG wrote: > > Hello. > > I have an odd problem that I can't seem to resolve. I use struts along > with JSP to call Java Servlets on the back end. Some back end calls take a > little while when used by the WEB users so I've been asked to put up a > message that tells the users to "Please Wait

[OT] Re: Displaying "Please Wait" message

2008-12-09 Thread Dave Newton
--- On Tue, 12/9/08, RudyG wrote: > I have an odd problem that I can't seem to resolve. Not really a Struts issue, though. > function splashScreen() { > document.write("..."); > document.forms[0].submit(); > return true; > } > > However the problem is that after the document wr