Mike, Thanks for your reply. The input page has a form into which a user types or pastes a list of patents. Upon clicking "Submit" the form POSTS the list to the .lc page for processing. For each patent in the list, the script of the .ic page sends a query to a European Patent Office server. The script then formats the response from the server for each patent as a row in a table. At the end of the processing the table is displayed. For a long list of patents this could take a while. So I am looking for some way for the .lc page to display the progress of its going through the list.
Regards, Bruce On Aug 6, 2011, at 1:58 PM, Michael Kann wrote: > Bruce, > > I'm working on something similar. When you write that you have a "list of > patent numbers processed by a .lc or .irev page" do you mean that you are > going out to fetch the patents each time, or will all the data be on your > server? The reason I ask is if the data is on your server it might be better > to attack the user delay in your code, rather than work on a progress bar. > > For example, I'm presenting 993 titles of videos; all in a similar format, > but the whole list is different each time. When I started out it took about 6 > seconds from button click to the list appearing. After setting up a poor > man's index and retooling a few loops I've gotten the return trip down to > about 50 milliseconds -- good enough for government work. > > Mike > > > --- On Sat, 8/6/11, Bruce Pokras <bruc...@comcast.net> wrote: > > From: Bruce Pokras <bruc...@comcast.net> > Subject: Any way to show progress while an ON-REV page is processing a script? > To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Date: Saturday, August 6, 2011, 11:46 AM > > I have a form that uses POST to get a list of patent numbers processed by a > .lc or .irev page. Right now, the whole list has to be processed before the > user sees that anything has happened. In my case, once all the patent numbers > have been processed, the user will see a page of tables with information > about each patent. In my revlet version of this process, it was easy to have > a field display the progress of the processing with 1 of 20, 2 of 20, 3 of > 20, etc. being displayed in a field as the processing of each patent took > place. > > Is there any way to display a progress indicator while the .lc or .irev page > is processing the patent numbers? I have tried a couple of things, such as > having a separate "put" command for each patent, but nothing is displayed > until all of the patents have been processed. > > Regards, > > Bruce Pokras > Blazing Dawn Software > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
