[Seaside] Implement "please wait" message using smallfaces.

[Timothy James Ziebart]

Thanks Robert I will give it a try - never used it before.

Robert Sirois wrote:
> Are you able to use an #onSuccess: type message is your system? (Ajax 
> request.)
>
> RS
>
> > Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:19:47 -0800
> > From: timothy at churchmilitant.org
> > To: seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > Subject: [Seaside] Implement "please wait" message using smallfaces.
> >
> > Hi all. I've built a fairly complex interface using SmallFaces
> > components.
> >
> > 9 listboxes, 4 buttons, 3 labels, 1 panel and two custom components
> > (subclasses of SFAbstractWidget - search results and a map). Selecting
> > an option in one listbox results in a chain of events being executed -
> > the contents of two other listboxes are updated, a search conducted 
> on a
> > remote server and the results being displayed including label and 
> button
> > statuses being updated. There are no submit or search buttons -
> > selecting a listbox option starts the process (I will be adding the
> > functionality to include the search button should the user not have
> > javascript on). There are no forms. It works well - that is not the
> > problem.
> >
> > The challenge I have is due to the delay in getting data from the 
> remote
> > server I would like to implement a "please wait" message while the data
> > is being retrieved. I am not having any success getting it to work.
> >
> > I tried a SUPeriodical object reading a variable holding updated 
> message
> > text but, it stops while the data is being retrieved and will display
> > the content only when the remaining components are updated -- too late.
> > Is it possible to have an element update the content and display the
> > results before the remainder of the requests are processed? What would
> > that look like? Does SUEvaluater/updater update content and render
> > before processing the next script?
> >
> > I was looking at Ramon Leon's Ajax Polling and Concurrency articles
> > thinking I may have to head in that direction. Is that the direction I
> > need to head in? Any suggestions would be helpful.
> >
> > As you can tell I am confused about the sequence when a element on a
> > page has it's content updated and when the browser displays the results
> > using ajax.
> >
> > Thank you for the help.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
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