very good point about the estimated time being better than nothing. i haven't read anything anywhere else that suggests how to do this, and also as suggested cfflush may not be the right option for this scenario, so until something else is available then i think your option may be best josh
thanks for your feedback and suggestions >Richard, it sounds like you might be able to implement the process I >mentioned. > >If you were able to determine a "baseline" processing time for a simple data >set, you could use this to estimate the amount of time it would take for >more complex data sets. You'd have to do a lot of testing to see how long >different scenarios would take, and which things had what effect on the >processing time. For example, if a certain variable exists it might take >10X as long as it would if that variable didn't exist. > >If you have a very complex processing task with many variables, this will be >somewhat difficult...however, I think this would be your only option, as >there isn't really a way (that I know of anyway) to pass back progress >information from the server. Maybe you could try <cfflush> or something but >I don't know if that could be captured by javascript, or what that would >entail. > >And remember, even an estimated completion time is better than nothing at >all, from the user's perspective. > > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:309834 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
