Put up a different non-modal popup to show something while waiting. If you have progress, show progress, otherwise, present some other information like a slide-show.
Or just put a status bar on the main app that shows that there's something pending. On 10/22/13 1:08 PM, "mark goldin" <[email protected]> wrote: >Actually it's not a processing that takes time. After data is returned it >works very fast and closes. It's the waiting time until data is >returned.So, for the user the popup stays there for 10 sec before the app >is resumed. > > >On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Maurice Amsellem < >[email protected]> wrote: > >> You need to wait for the popup to actually close before doing your 10sec >> processing. >> Add a listener to popup close event (or whatever equivalent event), and >>do >> your processing in that handler. >> >> However, whatever place you put your processing, your application will >> seem "frozen" during that period. >> The only solution to make it seem active is to use workers, like Alex >> suggested. >> >> Maurice >> >> -----Message d'origine----- >> De : mark goldin [mailto:[email protected]] >> Envoyé : mardi 22 octobre 2013 21:45 >> À : users >> Objet : Re: Close popup to resume user interaction with the screen >> >> I thought Actionscript workers cannot handle screens. >> Also, I am not sure how psuedo-threading will help. What I want is to >> close popup right away so the screen will become active. But currently >>the >> popup processes received data before it closes. Is that still can be >> accomplished? >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Actionscript Workers or psuedo-threading. >> > >> > On 10/22/13 10:24 AM, "mark goldin" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >I have a popup that user is using to send a request to the server. >> > >After receiving a response from the server the popup does a few >> > >things with arrived data and closes. So the user does not have to >> > >close it. All he does is clicking on the Ok button. It takes about 10 >> > >sec from clicking Ok and getting popup closed. Any tricks people have >> > >come with to create an illusion that the screen would become active >> > >sooner then it actually is? >> > > >> > >Thanks >> > >> > >>
