[Seaside] Displaying progress on a web page

[Dmitry Dorofeev]

Also there is server PUSH technology, search Google.

You can have an <ifarme> in your page, which updates from the server
size, it renders full HTML page in each go. Just an option, if you 
don't want to mess with Javascript.


-Dmitry.
Philippe Marschall wrote:
> 2006/8/16, Mart-Mari Breedt <breedt_m at aircom.co.za>:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> How would one update an WAComponent without using a timed update?
>>
>> An example would be a progress list, that gets updated by an long
>> running process.
>>
>> Thank you,
> 
> 
> Ideally you would be able to use Comet for that. It would allow you to
> create events on the server and evaluate them in the client.
> Unfortunately it's not there yet.
> 
> So either fix it yourself ;) or use polling (periodical). The overhead
> should not be that heavy if you only have a few users and comet would
> require an open http connection and periodical updates anyway.
> 
> When the progress is done, inject a script that redirects to the next 
> "page".
> 
> Just remember to run the periodical updates in a new Process.
> 
> Philippe
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