That did the trick - thanks for help :-)
|---------+--------------------------------------------> | | "Jerod Venema" | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | | Sent by: | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | onrails.org | | | | | | | | | 08/09/2006 06:15 PM | | | Please respond to rails-spinoffs | | | | |---------+--------------------------------------------> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org | | cc: (bcc: Tyler L. Adamson/UPC) | | Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] newbie question | >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Check the Responders class... http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html#Ajax.Responders You can register your callback function to hide the div there. -Jerod On 8/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm new to the forum and I have what I assume will be a basic question for > a lot of you... > > I am using Ajax.Updater to make async calls to my service. I am calling > the same function three times so I can populate three different divs. My > issue is I would like to have a loading indicator that shows when I start > and doesn't hide until the last call is complete. Below is my function: > > As you can see, I have a call to checkAllCalls() which is my attempt to > hide the indicator only after everything is loaded. It works but only > ocassionally. > > Just curisous if someone has a better approach. I just want to show one > indicator for all three calls that disappears when all the data is loaded. > > > function executeCall(day, inDiv, inURL, inParams, inSync) { > reqDay = day; > > var opt = { > method: 'get', > postBody: inParams, > on404: function(t) { > alert('Error 404: location "' + t.statusText + '" > was not found.'); > }, > onFailure: function(t) { > ErrorHandler(t); > }, > asynchronous: inSync > } > new Ajax.Updater(inDiv + 'Container', inURL, opt); > > setTimeout('checkAllCalls()', 1000); > } > > _______________________________________________ > Rails-spinoffs mailing list > Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs > _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs