Help please

[John]

I have an ASP page that take a while to render and want to display a note on
screen ie Loading.. whilst the page is created and downloaded from the
server. How do i achieve this, everything i've tried wiats until the page is
ready to display

Yours in anticipation

john

[Evertjan.]

John wrote on 16 jan 2006 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

I have an ASP page that take a while to render and want to display a
note on screen ie Loading.. whilst the page is created and downloaded
from the server. How do i achieve this, everything i've tried wiats
until the page is ready to display

Not with serversided code, and asp runs serverside.

With clientside code [ask a clientside NG] it is possible.

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[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

John wrote:

I have an ASP page that take a while to render and want to display a
note on screen ie Loading.. whilst the page is created and downloaded
from the server. How do i achieve this, everything i've tried wiats
until the page is ready to display

Yours in anticipation

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2498

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[John]

Thanks bob resolved my problem

It was the response.flush that i needed

John

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John wrote:

I have an ASP page that take a while to render and want to display a
note on screen ie Loading.. whilst the page is created and downloaded
from the server. How do i achieve this, everything i've tried wiats
until the page is ready to display

Yours in anticipation

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2498

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Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
Please reply to the newsgroup. The email account listed in my From
header is my spam trap, so I don't check it very often. You will get a
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[paul]

And often I use a Response.Flush just after the top part of my page.
Thus no "Please wait." message is shown but the user can see that a new
page is starting to be rendered.

Best regards,
-Paul
www.Bullschmidt.com - Freelance Web and Database Developer
www.Bullschmidt.com/DevTip.asp - ASP Design Tips