Thanks guys. I am trying to avoid javascript and to do this with tapestry
components, so the ProgressiveDisplay method that François suggested seems
perfect. A bit of fiddling and it's working perfectly. For the record, and for
future searchers, here is the code that I used:
>From the tml:
Dom
Use ProgressiveDisplay component?
http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5.1/tapestry-core/ref/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/components/ProgressiveDisplay.html
see example
http://lombok.demon.co.uk/tapestry5Demo/test/core/progressivedisplaydemosource
or from tapestry test case
http://tapestry-test.a
A javascripty approach would be to popup the progress indicator onclick and
hide it when the ZONE_UPDATED event is fired on the zone.
Or you can look up that periodic zone refresh example, and have the zone
load over and over, with it saying "Still Loading" until the actual results
arrive. Not su