Chipp, Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.
Sorry about the html text - I didn't realize my webmail thingee did that. Unfortunately, it doesn't have any setting to change that, and it's the only way I can do personal email around the firewall at work - it blocks normal web mail sites... Thanks again, Edwin Gore ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 5:16 PM Subject: RE: Checking to see if internet stuff is finished > Edwin, > > (please try and use plain text posting:-) > > Are you using a post or get command to retrieve the URL? If so, then these are considered 'blocking' commands and work synchronously. > > For instance. > > on mouseUp > put URL "http://www.mypage.com?name=Edwin"; into tXML > put tXML into fld 1 > end mouseUp > > uses the 'get' form of retrieving data from a server. The variable tXML is only set after the data is finished being recived from the server. The same is true with: > > put "name=Edwin" into tData > post tData to URL "http://www.mypage.com"; > put it into fld 1 > > uses the 'post' form (which can hold larger chunks of data). Again, the return data is not placed into the variable it until post is finished. > > So, if you don't want someone to click a button, etc.. I'd recommend do something like: > > on mouseUp > ImBusy > put URL "http://www.mypage.com?name=Edwin"; into tXML > put tXML into fld 1 > ImNotBusy > end mouseUp > > on ImBusy > show img "spinningIcon.gif" > show btn "coverEverything" > put "Please wait...downloading URL" into fld "status" > end ImBusy > > on ImNotBusy > hide img "spinningIcon.gif" > hide btn "coverEverything" > put "Successful download" into fld "status" > end ImNotBusy > > Create a 'clear' button at the top layer which covers everything (except a Stop/Reset button). When your app is looking for a URL, it will display this button along with an animated GIF and a status string in a field at the bottom of the page. > > Hope this helps, > > Chipp > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Edwin Gore > > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 8:34 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Checking to see if internet stuff is finished > > > > > > I am very confused when it comes to doing some of the internet > > related stuff in RunRev and figuring out when things have or have > > not, finished. > > > > For example, I have an application that uploads a bunch of stuff > > to an FTP site - that was pretty easy to figure out. I put up a > > modal dialog, and when a file finishs uploading, I have whichever > > url command it is that I am using set to send a message, and the > > handler for that message sends ftps the next file in the queue > > up. Not elegant, but it works, and let's me make sure that the > > user isn't doing anything else in my app while it's uploading. > > > > Now, in another section of the same app I grab some XML that > > includes an image URL, sets an image object's filename to that > > url, then exports the image to a file. The problem that I am > > running into is that the script to do all of this runs, and > > returns control to the user, but it hasn't REALLY finished yet - > > the user can navigate away from the card that has the image > > object, and 20 seconds later I get an error message telling me > > that the image object doesn't exist - since the user is on a > > different card, without the image object. > > > > Now, I know that in my script that does the fetching and so on, I > > could have it remember the card number or whatever of the correct > > card and specifically whack the url into the image object there, > > but I don't wanna. The user could just as easily quit the > > application before the image has downloaded, or lots of other things. > > > > What I really want to do is put up a dialog or somethign saying > > "Please Wait" until the entire process has finished. > > > > Unfortunately I am baffled by the ways that the different kinds > > of internet related commands work, and by what appear to be > > differences in the commands between versions. I have looked > > through the archives and found some ideas, but they seem to be > > contradictory (based on version?) and it getting frustating. > > > > Anybody have any hints? > > _______________________________________________ > > use-revolution mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
