Hi Frank, Thanks a lot for taking time to explain the options.
Based on our requirements, the option 3 looks more promising to me (we already use frames for this solution) BTW, is there anyway, I can check the child window document status from the main widow, in this case? As the result comes in the dialog, which event or attribute may indicate the main window about the successful csv download on the child window? As a note, we took care of multiple submissions by disabling the button. Once again thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 4:10 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: JavaScript question? Hi Sezhiyan, There isn't any "standard" way of doing this... what's happening is that the request is coming back just like any other would that updates what the user sees. As you mentioned though, the save as dialog appears instead... there is no event you can hook that will tell you when the page is loaded because, in essence, the browser is expecting a new page that would overwrite any event you could hook even if one existed. There's a couple of ways I can think of to do this... (1) Perhaps the easiest is to target your form submission (or link) that gets the CSV to _new. This will open a popup that will be the target of the return... since it's a save as dialog, the popup should, I believe, go away, leaving just the save as dialog. This wouldn't help you determine when to change back to the default cursor though... you could kick off a timer to change it back in a few seconds. Before I forget, note that changing to an hourglass isn't stopping the user from clicking more than once, it's just a visual cue that they shouldn't. You may want to disable the button instead of changing cursors. The same problem of knowing when to change back applies though :) (2) Use AJAX to get the CSV, then display it to the user, perhaps in a new window, perhaps in a <div> on the same page. You'll know exactly when to switch the cursor back in this case. (3) If you can use frames, have a hidden frame (cols/rows=0) and target that... you can then kick off a timer in your main frame that checks the document status. When its complete, change the cursor back. (4) Kind of a hybrid of 1 and 3... open a new window, and in response to onLoad, make the call that gets the CSV... Put a message that says "After the Save As dialog appears, please click here" and when they click here, call a function back in the parent window that resets the cursor. Hope that helps! Frank Balasubramaniam, Sezhiyan wrote: > Though this is not a direct struts question, hope I will some guidance > for my issue. > In one of our struts application, we have a CSV download functionality. > We use response.setContentType("application/csv;"). > > When the download happens, user has no clue about the state of the > request and keeps on clicking the submit button. > > So we changed cursor to hour-glass on the form submit. This technique > works well with the other pages where response shown in the browser > itself. > But in the csv download, the page stays as it is, but the response comes > as a windows dialog for saving it or to open it. > > What happens is, even after the download, the mouse stays as hourglass. > > Can somebody advice me, which event, we have to look for, to turn the > mouse to default, after the page download? > > Thanks in advance. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]