Hi, Thanks for the information.
What I am looking to do is just stop the client browser from waiting. I do not want to change the page. In the two environments I am testing in, at present, IE and Mozilla, after the user presses the "accept" button the browser waits for a reply. With IE the tabsheet title shows a spinning circle. With Mozilla it sets the cursor to the pointer+hourglass. After the HandlePostedData I do not know what to send to handle the client so the client stop this "wait" mode. Ciao, Mark -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 10:54 AM To: twsocket@elists.org Subject: Re: [twsocket] Post command... Mark, If what you want is to let the user know that processing has completed, what you need to do is quite simple, old school CGI processing: You change the rendered output to reflect the results of processing. After finishing processing, change a variable, say, "resultString", and display it in the rendered output. You can have something like: // Notice the call to GetResultString() to inject server output. AnswerString(Flags, '', { Default Status '200 OK' } '', { Default Content-Type: text/html } '', { Default header } '<HTML>' + '<HEAD>' + '<TITLE>' + TitleString + '</TITLE>' + '</HEAD>' + '<BODY style="background:' + serverHTMLBGColor + '">' + GetResultString(resultString) + '<form action="AC" method="post">' + //accept command action '<p>Tag:' + tagName + ' ' + cBackButton + '</p>' + '<p>High Limit: ' + highEU + '</p>' + '<p>Low Limit: ' + lowEU + '</p>' + '<input name=Tagname type=hidden value="' + tagname + '"/>' + '<input name=ItemID type=hidden value="' + itemIDString + '"/>' + '<input name=UserValue type=text value="' + currentValue + '"/><br/>' + '<input name=AcceptBtn type=submit value="Accept"/>' + '</form>' + '</HTML>'); // ------- Function GetResultString(str: String): String Begin If (str <> '') Then Result := 'Server Responded: '+ str Else Result := ''; End If End; // -- END When the page is first rendered, the GetResultString() function will return an empty string because the resultString hasn't been set. And when the data is posted and processed, it will display the new string. This is pretty much how more complex and sophisticated frameworks, like ASP.NET, Java-Struts, and PHP handle dynamically generated pages. What Francois was offering was a more "modern" and popular approach, usually called AJAX, where your web page sends requests to the server on a separate channel, using JavaScript, then parses the output, and dynamically changes the document displayed. It does the same thing without "refreshing" the entire document. However, as you stated, this may not work in exactly the same way on every browser, and depends too much on client-side processing, which is prone to errors and abuse. -dZ. zayin wrote: > Hi, > > This all has to be done in HTML only. > > This is my first HTML programming task so, I do not know how to "make the > command from an invisible frame or layer". > > This is the page. > > AnswerString(Flags, > '', { Default Status '200 OK' } > '', { Default Content-Type: text/html } > '', { Default header } > '<HTML>' + > '<HEAD>' + > '<TITLE>' + TitleString + '</TITLE>' + > '</HEAD>' + > '<BODY style="background:' + serverHTMLBGColor + '">' + > '<form action="AC" method="post">' + //accept command action > '<p>Tag:' + tagName + ' ' + cBackButton + '</p>' + > '<p>High Limit: ' + highEU + '</p>' + > '<p>Low Limit: ' + lowEU + '</p>' + > '<input name=Tagname type=hidden value="' + tagname + '"/>' + > '<input name=ItemID type=hidden value="' + itemIDString + '"/>' + > '<input name=UserValue type=text value="' + currentValue + '"/><br/>' + > '<input name=AcceptBtn type=submit value="Accept"/>' + > '</form>' + > '</HTML>'); > > Can you advise? -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
