RE: Displaying a "Processing your request" page -- JAVA400-L

Mike,

> Does anyone have any ideas or recommendations on how to
> complete this task?

Here's a old test I had, it uses frames, but you should see how to do it from 
none frames.

Basically, it sees times the time to get a page/frame load event, if after 2 
secs the page hasn't finished loading, then it shows a animated .gif of a clock 
(not provided here) that continues to display until the page does finally load.

Hope it helps !

main page;

<html>
<head>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">

        <script language="JavaScript">
        function refreshFrame()
        {
                document.location.href = "url to something that takes a while 
to load";
        }
        </script>

        <title>Main page</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="60,*" cols="1" border="0" framespacing="0" frameborder="0" 
onLoad="refreshFrame();">
        <frame name="header_pane" id="header_pane" 
src="browser?template=keyperformHead" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" 
scrolling="no" frameborder="0" noresize>
        <frame name="kpiSummary_pane" id="kpiSummary_pane" 
src="browser?template=pleaseWait" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" 
scrolling="auto" frameborder="0">
</frameset>
</html>


pleasewait page;

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
        <title>Please Wait</title>

<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- we only want the 'Please Wait' image if the server takes more than 2 
seconds to respond
        pictureTimeOut = "2000";
        pictureURL = "static/images/spssclock.gif";
        function redirTimer()
        {
                self.setTimeout("document.images[0].src = pictureURL;", 
pictureTimeOut);
        }
// -->
</script>

</head>

<body onLoad="redirTimer()">

<center>
<img src="static/images/clearpixel.gif" width="120" height="100" alt="Please 
Wait, information is being loaded" border="0" align="absmiddle" vspace="200" 
title="Please Wait" id="please_wait">
</center>
</body>
</html>

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