Re: Zip download without Window.open()

2011-07-27 Thread Sean
Thank you for the ideas guys! I will try to implement something like that! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/Hk7LumPhrDAJ. To post

Re: Zip download without Window.open()

2011-07-27 Thread Thad
While the RPC preps the file(s), I put up a "wait" dialog. The download is done with a servlet which I direct to a hidden frame. In my project's HTML I put just below my history frame. In loading my module class is private static final String DOWNLOAD_IFRAME = "__gwt_downloadFrame"; private st

Re: Zip download without Window.open()

2011-07-27 Thread jhulford
We show a "wait" dialog, then send an RPC telling the server to kick off a backend process (ie. zip up the files), the RPC returns an identifier (a UUID) to the caller, the caller then polls every so often sending that UUID to identify which service it's asking about to get an update on whether the

Zip download without Window.open()

2011-07-27 Thread Sean
Hi, I've followed a bunch of tutorials and I'm able to click a button, send parameters via a Window.open() call to an HttpServlet and it will construct a bunch of files, zip them up and send them back. The problem is sometimes creating these files can take some time, and a blank window just st