Why not use a modal box? http://www.1011web.com/blog/post/2009/04/23/Using-jQuery-and-FancyBox-to-show-PDF-documents.aspx
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Seth Duda <[email protected]> wrote: > I've run into the same issue myself - I have yet to implement any changes, > but I was planning on building a process similar to this: > > I'd like to know if anyone else has any other ideas. > > 1) The user requests the PDF. > 2) The request spawns off a new process to generate the PDF and saves it to > a temporary folder ( or saves it into a database ). Another option would be > to have the current request save a database record to some sort of "pending" > report table. Then, a separate back end process would poll the table for > reports to generate and save them off to a temp directory or table. > 2a) In the meantime, the request immediately forwards the user a page which > presents a "loading" screen. Using javascript the loading page would query > the server every 5-10 seconds to see if the PDF has been generated. > 3) Once the loading page has determined that the PDF has been generated, it > is sent to the user. > > This could be extended to allow the user to navigate away from the loading > page. A separate page which presents a list of reports and their current > status could be built. > > Seth > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Aaron Stromas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I realise this is not Stripes question, really. I'm posting to this list >> in hope that someone might have faced a similar situation and was able to >> find a decent solution. So, here goes... >> >> I am using the StreamingResolution to fetch a PDF. Unfortunately, the PDF >> is generated on the fly and can take seriously long time. I'd like to pop up >> one of those javascript busy-wait windows, which would be taken down by the >> page that loads if I were able to hook the onload event on that page. >> Unfortunately, with the StreamingResolution I can't do that. The problem >> needs to be tackled differently. Any suggestions? TIA >> >> -a >> >> -- >> Aaron Stromas >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Stripes-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Stripes-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users > > -- Richard Hauswald Blog: http://tnfstacc.blogspot.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardhauswald Xing: http://www.xing.com/profile/Richard_Hauswald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Stripes-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users
