A fancy way for doing modal windows and disabling other userinput are either thickbox (http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/) or greybox (http://orangoo.com/labs/GreyBox/) - they both allow you to show arbitrary content while users are waiting for background processing.
Just make sure you don't forget to add onUnload-Handler to your page, to warn your users when they try the backbutton: Users on the web tend to get impatient, use the backbutton and loose the whole page... (that was at least our experience when we started using greybox)... 2007/3/30, CD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
One thought... You can use divs with z-index layering to accomplish this task. This will allow you to use a transparent div on top of page (essentially functioning as the glass pane in a Swing application). On 3/30/07, Julien Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > I am wondering if it is possible to make sure that no user input is possible/allowed whilst the server is processing in other words when the "startText" of the a4j:status is displayed. Do I need some sort of a modal component? Any best practice one of you could advise? How can I disable all of the screen whilst the ajax request is processing?? > Thanks in advance, > Julien.
