I'd just cook up something really simple and use a nice animated .swf
created in flash to do it. Have a "still" swf and a "busy" swf, and with
a hundred lines of event handling you could simply listen for start/end
events (or even just provide on/off methods depending on your
architecture), and show/hide the appropriate asset.
-Josh
Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
Dear all,
We are looking for a decent throbber to give the user some feedback when
our application is loading data or thinking.
We have been using jamesjaco's Loading Spinner from the Flex Component
Exchange, but it chews up quite a lot of CPU and leaks memory rather
badly (several hundred KB per second under the debug player):
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1219018
<http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1219018>
We also tried a different one from the component exchange, Born2code's
Progress Icons, but these don't animate smoothly.
Do you have suggestions? What do you all use for this (seemingly common)
purpose?
We're not too picky about the visual style.
Many thanks,
Reid
