I don't know what to make of that Coldfusion code (makes me long for
Perl) but what I would do is display the msg div then use $.ajax() to
send a request to the server. Use the 'success' callback function to
then hide the msg div when your server-side code is done.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Tiger <tigercubs2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am running a function that takes a long time to run in coldfusion.
> I would like to display a Loading Data message when the data needs to
> be loaded then hide that message once the data load is complete. What
> jQuery functions do you recommend and what basic approach do I need to
> take.
>
> This is what I have (non qQuery approach), but the cfflush seems to
> have issues on the production server.
>
>
> <!--- Load all offices to create a TopOffice org tree. --->
> <cfset application.EmployeeDB_Functions.Loading_Data_Message_On
> ('Load_Office','Loading Office Data .........')>
> <cfset application.TopOffice = createobject('component','EIMC/
> EmployeeDB/cfc/Office').init(#p_OfficeID#)>
> <cfset application.EmployeeDB_Functions.Loading_Data_Message_Off
> ('Load_Office')>
>
>
> <!--- Turn ON Loading Data Message --->
> <cffunction name="Loading_Data_Message_On" access="public"
> output="yes">
> <cfargument name="FormName" required="yes">
> <cfargument name="Message" required="yes">
> <form name="#FormName#" style="margin:10px;width:600px">
> <input name="inMessage" value="#Message#" style="font-size:
> 18px;width:600px">
> </form>
> <cfflush>
> </cffunction>
>
>
> <!--- Turn OFF Loading Data Message --->
> <cffunction name="Loading_Data_Message_Off" access="public"
> output="yes">
> <cfargument name="FormName" required="yes">
> <script>
> document.#FormName#.style.height="0px";
> document.#FormName#.style.margin = "0px";
> document.#FormName#.style.visibility="hidden";
> document.#FormName#.style.margin="0px";
>
> document.#FormName#.inMessage.value = "Load Complete";
> document.#FormName#.inMessage.style.height="0px";
> document.#FormName#.inMessage.style.margin="0px";
> document.#FormName#.inMessage.style.padding="0px";
> document.#FormName#.inMessage.style.visibility="hidden";
> </script>
> <cfflush>
> </cffunction>
>
>
