Bruce, For a similar application I'm using HttpRequest (JavaScript) in a loop to send as many requests as lines to process. JavaScript handles the responses and and fill the list in the browser, no need of progress bar.
http://www.w3schools.com/dom/dom_httprequest.asp Jacques 2011/8/8 Bruce Pokras <bruc...@comcast.net> > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
