thanks for the help and the links.
just one last question. why i'm saying the makrers loaded one by one
in Firefox and not in IE 7?
thanks
On Nov 18, 11:53 pm, donb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using this code myself (emplying the jQuery progressBar plugin):
>
> $j.getJSON(request,
> function(data, status){
> function doAdd(items) {
> addProperty(items[item_n++]); // To map
> progress(item_n,item_total);
> if (item_n < item_total)
> setTimeout(callDoAdd(items),100);
> else {
> $j("div#progress").remove();
> }
> }
> function callDoAdd(items) {
> return function() {
>
> doAdd(items);
> }
> }
> item_total = data.markers.length;
> item_n = 0;
> if (item_total > 1) {
>
> $j("div#map:not(:has('div#progress'))").append("<div
> class='noprint' id='progress'>Loading... <a id='cancel' href='#'>
> [Quit]</a></div>");
> $j("a#cancel").click(
> function() {
> cancel = 1;
> }
> );
> $j("div#progress").progressBar({
> boxImage:
> '/images/progressbar.gif',
> barImage:
> '/images/progressbg_green.gif'
> });
> }
>
> setTimeout(callDoAdd(data.markers),100);
>
> }
> );
>
> function progress(cur,total) {
> $j("div#progress").progressBar(Math.floor(100 * (cur/total)));
>
> }
>
> The doAdd() and callDoAdd() functions faciitate passing a JASON array
> to the function that setTimeout calls (you can't directly do that
> because the function will execute immediately instead of after the
> timer expiration). My progress bar is displayed in <div#progress>,
> which I create and destroy as needed. It is positioned with CSS to
> 'float' over the middle of the map.
>
> The single-threadedness of javascript necessitates having a timer to
> interrupt the thread so the progress bar can be updated in between
> each marker being generated. I found doing this for each marker to be
> fine for my purposes but perhaps doing them 10 or 25 at a time might
> be preferable to someone else.
>
> On Nov 18, 3:28 pm, Rossko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > You might like to search this group for 'progress bar'
> > It's not an easy thing to implement
> > An example -
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/browse_thread/thread/d...
>
> > cheers, Ross K- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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