To answer your initial question, just use contrib:ajaxStatus from http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry4.1/tapestry-contrib/componentreference/ajaxstatus.html
For the second, why not update only the part in question? On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Norman Franke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I sort of have it working by doing an "onclick" and relying on the entire > form to update, which resets my div. > > But that brings up another point. I want to AJAX fetch a list of elements > with a checkbox. Is there a better way to do this than by setting the entire > form as one of the updateComponents? It pretty much forces an update of the > entire page. If I don't, I can't get the values of the checkbox since > tapestry serializes the state of the @For and checkboxes in fields. > > What's the best way to handle this? > > Norman Franke > Answering Service for Directors, Inc. > www.myasd.com > > On Oct 24, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Norman Franke wrote: > >> I've searched the documentation, and I can't find how one implements a >> "loading..." indicator when an AJAX request is sent off. My app will be >> doing a series of database queries which can take 10 seconds or so, and it >> really needs something to tell the user they need to wait a bit. >> Showing/Hiding a div would be great. >> >> Norman Franke >> Answering Service for Directors, Inc. >> www.myasd.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] > > -- Andreas Andreou - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://blog.andyhot.gr Tapestry / Tacos developer Open Source / JEE Consulting --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]