[Seaside] Cooperative Multitasking (within a priority level) and other questions

[William E Harford]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 16:08 +0200, Avi Bryant wrote:

> > Would it be possible to create a "wait" dialog/component. What I mean by
> > that is a dialog that does not ask for user input but simply refreshes
> > until a code block completes. Would it be as simple as creating a
> > component that forks a process, sends a meta/refresh tag (along with
> > some other "please wait" content), and waits for the process to
> > complete ?
> 
> Yes, that sounds right.  It would be nice to get a generic version of
> this (maybe even with a progress bar).

Is this a hint :-). 

We are going to need something like this. I would be more than happy to
submit it for inclusion into Seaside if it meets coding standards. 


> - set up a separate program that listens for PDF generation requests
> over a socket and returns the generated PDF (or a filename or
> something)

Thats a fine idea and most likely the course I will take. 

Thanks
Will