[web2py] Re: present a wait page to user

2010-10-20 Thread meland
Hi Jason, Thank you for your reply. I think I have tried something similar to your suggestion. The user clicks a link to advance to the wait page from a page I'll call first page... {{extend 'layout.html'}} h3You are playing as a responder in this game.../h3 ul li{{=A(B(T(Click to enter

[web2py] Re: present a wait page to user

2010-10-20 Thread meland
Hi Jason, Thanks for the reply. I think I have tried something similar to your suggestion. From a first page click a link that directs to the wait page... {{extend 'layout.html'}} h3You are playing as a responder in this game.../h3 ul li{{=A(B(T(Click to enter game)),

[web2py] Re: present a wait page to user

2010-10-20 Thread meland
. BR, Jason Brower On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 10:41 -0700, meland wrote: Hi Jason, Thank you for your reply.  I think I have tried something similar to your suggestion. The user clicks a link to advance to the wait page from a page I'll call first page... {{extend 'layout.html

[web2py] Re: present a wait page to user

2010-10-20 Thread meland
Thanks for the references, Wikus. I will review those as you suggested. Cheers... Mike On Oct 20, 10:02 am, Wikus van de Merwe dupakrop...@googlemail.com wrote: There are two options. First is HTML refresh: meta http-equiv=refresh content=5 / which will request your page every 5s and then

[web2py] Re: dealing with extra clicks on a link

2010-10-19 Thread meland
to get back in the polling status   //ELSE  call setTimeout(CheckState, 5000) to check if it's my turn again in 5 seconds } I hope something like this helps :) On Oct 15, 12:01 pm, meland eland.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, First, I would appreciate if anyone can help with this issue

[web2py] present a wait page to user

2010-10-19 Thread meland
Hello Group... I'm both new to web2py and web programming... but I have been learning web2py for a couple months now. The scenario I'm trying to implement server-side is as follows... A user A clicks a link and the corresponding function 1) initiates a database poll that may take a few seconds

[web2py] dealing with extra clicks on a link

2010-10-15 Thread meland
Hello, First, I would appreciate if anyone can help with this issue I'm facing. Second, I am new to web2py, and not a programmer by profession. I have written an application for conducting tournaments with the ultimatum game - a simple bargaining game. The problem: it seems to work fine