Sounds great but way over my head :P...would you mind sharing your code for me to look at. Thanks so much Bruno. Kenny
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kenny G. Dubuisson, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Can you have a second, HTML, stream going to one browser > 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
