Hi, On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:35 AM, mlabs <[email protected]> wrote:
> So what I'm trying to do must surely be a common thing... yet so far I have > had no luck getting it to work. > I'm generating big PDF's on the server .. and in the browser I have a link > that should initiate that generation and bring up a file 'save-as' dialog > when the PDF is ready to be downloaded. While the generation phase is going > on, I want to use jQuery.blockUI to stop the user from doing anything else > in the app. > > 1-AJAX start PDF generation, on a different thread and retunr script to block UI, plus AJAX timer that will poll the server for PDF generation status. 2-Once PDF generation is finished, AJAX timer will unblock the UI and trigger AJAX download (and disable timer). -- Regards - Ernesto Reinaldo Barreiro Antilia Soft http://antiliasoft.com
