you could even display a progress bar indicator so that your users are aware of how much it is left.
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Ernesto Reinaldo Barreiro < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- Regards - Ernesto Reinaldo Barreiro Antilia Soft http://antiliasoft.com
