Re: Huge file long response prep and download

2008-12-20 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Yeah, those poor IE users will just have to read the "if your file did not download, click here" message and do the download click themselves if they stop the meta refresh bah, IE ... hate it. On Dec 20, 2008, at 3:48 PM, John Huss wrote: Be careful, i think this pops up a warning

Re: Huge file long response prep and download

2008-12-20 Thread John Huss
Be careful, i think this pops up a warning in IE. On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote: Susanne, that is brilliant! What a simple solution that is very elegant from the user's point of view . the thought never crossed my mind to use the Refresh header to trigger a si

Re: Huge file long response prep and download

2008-12-20 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Susanne, that is brilliant! What a simple solution that is very elegant from the user's point of view . the thought never crossed my mind to use the Refresh header to trigger a single download response on refresh! This is exactly the kind of idea I was looking for and it works great whi

Re: Huge file long response prep and download

2008-12-19 Thread Susanne Schneider
Hi Kieran, you could return the page to be displayed to the user with an meta-reload at the top for downloading the file with a download action. The meta-reload is only displayed once with a flag set from the finished action and reset from the download-action. This should work as long as the

Re: Huge file long response prep and download

2008-12-19 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Hi Miguel, I have no problem using AjaxProgress, long response updating, etc for "normal" long response tasks where a *single* WOActionResults gets fired at the end of the long response task to take user to whatever page I want to push them to . the question is what behaviour to have

Re: Huge file long response prep and download

2008-12-19 Thread Miguel Arroz
Hi! One way we use to solve those problems is to have a part of the page updating every X seconds (it may be an AjaxUpdateContainer or so). When possible, we show up the percentage of the processing on that AUC. Yours Miguel Arroz On 2008/12/19, at 17:55, Kieran Kelleher wrote: L

Huge file long response prep and download

2008-12-19 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Looking for UI behaviour ideas When I have a case of large file download that needs a long response preparation scenario due to file prep time, I normally do one of these 2: 1) Open a popup Window saying sth like "please wait while we prepare your file..." and that popup runs the l