Hello there ladies and gents, hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
I'm using a combination of flot and ui tabs, and I want the following behavior: When the user clicks on the tab, the text and background get changed to display a loading message while the flot graph is drawn and processed. When the graph is drawn, the tab returns to normal. I have this functionality, but the problem is that it's not showing. When I step through the javascript with firebug, everything works perfectly--the tab changes to display the loading, the graph gets drawn, and then the tab returns to normal. However when I'm not debugging, everything seems to process so fast that nothing appears to happen. The problem is that it's not really processing so fast--there is a noticeable few seconds delay between the time the tab is clicked and the graph gets redrawn, hence why I want this feedback. So I suppose instead of saying "it seems to process so fast" what I really mean is that it appears that the changes to the tab that get done within the click function don't actually get displayed until the click function finishes processing -- which makes it appear as if nothing has been done. I've scoured the learning jquery and jquery reference books, as well as tried to dig around on the 'net and can't find anything to confirm or deny this apparent behavior. Does anyone happen to know one way or the other, or know of any documentation that addresses this issue? Does anyone happen to know how I can get this to work? Thanks very much in advance.
