frames?

Abhishek Reddy — Sun, 08 Jul 2001 21:23:01 +0000

hi myriad,

maybe the search button could send the user to a page with a top and bottom frame, one of which displays the "please wait" message. and an onLoad function in the results frame hides the message frame one.
this way you can create only a static html page separately and avoid any layers (browser compatibilty issues).

i hope it helped.

also, i dont see why it cannot redirect itself. once again , i know it is possible with ASP using the response.redirect method .

myriad — Sun, 08 Jul 2001 20:37:04 +0000

Thanks for the replies. Looking at
my post it probably wasn't the most
discriptive in the world - a drink
before a post is never a good idea

What happens is this:

1st page has an input box when you
hit submit the details are passed onto
the cgi script which does the work.
While this is happening the background
colour of the results page is displayed.
Once the cgi script has the results it then
fills in the page.

I need a little message to say "Please wait..."
just after the submit button is hit whilst the
screen is blank and before the results are displayed.

I am unsure as to whether I should put it into the
cgi script itself or can I get the submit button to
do two actions 1 to pass the info to the cgi script
and 2 display a popup or something similar.

Unsure as to whether that was a better explanation -
need a drink

cheers

Steve

Gyrbo — Sun, 08 Jul 2001 11:52:18 +0000

If you make a layer, and Place some lading text on it, and with a tag hide the layer so that the user would see the results.

hotcut — Sun, 08 Jul 2001 10:20:05 +0000

I don't know any CGI, however I know that it is server-side; it cannot redirect itself!

If you know that after 5 seconds it will all be found, you can simply do like this:

after 5 seconds, it will move to that page.

Was it something like that you neede`d?

~Casper
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