One thing I have done in the past is to replace the submit button with an animated gif that resembles a status bar. This keeps users from double posting the form, and gives a bit of visual feedback to indicate to the user that he/she should wait.
If you want something more, you should take a look at the Execute and Wait Interceptor. -> http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/execute-and-wait-interceptor.html On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 14:40 -0800, RudyG wrote: > Hello. > > I have an odd problem that I can't seem to resolve. I use struts along with > JSP to call Java Servlets on the back end. Some back end calls take a little > while when used by the WEB users so I've been asked to put up a message that > tells the users to "Please Wait" so that they don't press the Submit button > multiple times. So what I ended up doing was calling a Javascript function > from within the onclick() event of the Submit button. And here are the > contents of the function: > > function splashScreen() > { > document.write("<p > style='color:black;background-color:aqua;text-align:center;margin:25% 25% > 10% 25%;border: medium double black;'>Processing Data.<br>Please > Wait.</p>"); > document.forms[0].submit(); > return true; > } > > However the problem is that after the document write is executed the > processing stops. All attempts of doing the submit() from Javascript also > does not work as it gives some sort of permission violation. Does anyone > have any suggestions? > > Thank you in advance. > Rudy > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
