PLease ... How do you display the whirly thingy while running an Xbasic script

[Keith Hubert]

Re: PLease ... How do you display the whirly thingy while running an Xbasic script

Hi Steve,

This is great, just what I was looking for. Thank you.

I have have to process some data that is returned from the Credit Card company,which is in the URL.

How do you suggest I pass the URL to the process page while the Please Wait page is running?

[Al Buchholz]

Re: PLease ... How do you display the whirly thingy while running an Xbasic script

Sweet. Workings da man...

[drgarytraub]

Re: PLease ... How do you display the whirly thingy while running an Xbasic script

Steve,

That looks great. I have to study it and will do so later today or tomorrow. Thanks so much!!

Gary

[Steve Workings]

Re: PLease ... How do you display the whirly thingy while running an Xbasic script

Alright, here's a demo & example.

Just unzip the database in its own directory. Publish the project (4 pages and 1 GIF) to your local webroot and load StartHere.htm into your browser. StartHere has links to show the results, and some explanation of what I did.

If I haven't made anything clear, let me know and I'll work to improve it.

[NoeticCC]

Re: PLease ... How do you display the whirly thingy while running an Xbasic script

Do you pre-load the whirly gif? If yes then I think part of the problem is that a gif in a browser often only loops once, so if this is pre-loaded, it will not move any more by the time it is displayed. I believe when generating the gif you can specify how many times it is supposed to loop.

[Steve Workings]

Re: PLease ... How do you display the whirly thingy while running an Xbasic script

Guys - I've found a way. My weekend is packed, but let me see if I can put together the stuff you and others (and I) need for a whirleyed-thingied please wait page. I have one - just gotta model it and 'splain it.

[drgarytraub]

Re: PLease ... How do you display the whirly thingy while running an Xbasic script

Steve,

I tried essentially the same things - putting the gif on a page, that is called from a dialog, and then a redirect from the gif page to the page that has the xbasic. When this is run, it seems that the gif page is bypassed and the page with the Xbasic is run.

Thanks for your response; and thanks for the GIF's!

It seems that some people do use this technique. So there must be a way to get it to work ....

Gary

[Steve Wood]

Re: PLease ... How do you display the whirly thingy while running an Xbasic script

For this one, I'd like an answer too - I've tried several ways but cannot get the animated gif (aka "whirly thingy") to whirl. Tried:

Page with "Click here to process" link leads to page with animated gif. The page with the animated gif has only the gif and response.redirect() to the page that does the processing. But it runs the process first, and only displays the gif as static during processing. I've tried various other configurations to make it work. Note that Alpha's Maintenance module has an animated gif that works, but the process uses AJAX to do so.

Gary - I attached to gifs in case you were looking for one.

[drgarytraub]

If I insert the "whirly thingy" on the page, and then insert the Xbasic just belwo it; then when I run the page, the image does not display - the script just runs. What am I doing wrong.

I would reallly appreciate it if someone would help with this ....

Gary