Quoting "Kenny G. Dubuisson, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I hope this isn't off topic. I want to display a "Please Wait" HTML window > while my fairly long PDF generation takes place in the browser window. Is > there a way to show the wait window, generate the PDF into Acrobat Reader > in > the browser, and then close the wait window? I've not figured a way to do > it yet.
I generate my PDFs in a Thread: myPdfGenerator implements Runnable I add this object myPdfGenerator to the HttpSession-object (one for each user) In myPdfGenerator I have a membervariable status = false. At the end of the run()-method I set status = true. My Servlet gets the myPdfGenerator from the HttpSession. If the status == false, I tell the page to Refresh after 3 seconds and I set the content-type to HTML with a PleaseWait-message. The output is sent to the client. This will be repeated every 3 seconds (unless the user closes his browser). As soon as the status == true I set the content-type to PDF and I write the PDF to the OutputStream. Of course you don't need to set the Refresh-header now. Bruno ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
