Animated buttons control?

[Ben Fidge]

Can anyone recommend any good controls to implement animated buttons. I want
something that can perform the following:

- Must initially display a static image
- When clicked the button must seamlessly display an animated GIF while
waiting for the postback to return

The idea is to provide some indication to the user that a process is running
between page postbacks. For example, at our sites checkout page, we have to
exchange data with one of our vendors machiens and this can take 30 seconds
or so sometimes. We want to provide a small progress bar style animation to
the user while it is happening.

Ben

[Bruce Barker]

unless you want to write an active/x control of java applet which can start
a background thread (the main ie thread is stalled during postback) to run
the animation, you should use a polling. google this newgroup for progress
bar suggestions, i believe there are some controls.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com(

"Ben Fidge" <be*******@nospambtopenworld.com> wrote in message
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Can anyone recommend any good controls to implement animated buttons. I
want something that can perform the following:

- Must initially display a static image
- When clicked the button must seamlessly display an animated GIF while
waiting for the postback to return

The idea is to provide some indication to the user that a process is
running between page postbacks. For example, at our sites checkout page,
we have to exchange data with one of our vendors machiens and this can
take 30 seconds or so sometimes. We want to provide a small progress bar
style animation to the user while it is happening.

Ben

[Ben Fidge]

Hi Bruce,

This isn't quite what I'm after. I actually use PleaseWaitButton
(http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/PleaseWaitButton.asp) but this is giving
me a lot of problems since going over to ASP.NET 2.0

Thanks for your response however.

Ben
"Bruce Barker" <br******************@safeco.com> wrote in message
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unless you want to write an active/x control of java applet which can
start a background thread (the main ie thread is stalled during postback)
to run the animation, you should use a polling. google this newgroup for
progress bar suggestions, i believe there are some controls.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com(

"Ben Fidge" <be*******@nospambtopenworld.com> wrote in message
news:ep**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Can anyone recommend any good controls to implement animated buttons. I
want something that can perform the following:

- Must initially display a static image
- When clicked the button must seamlessly display an animated GIF while
waiting for the postback to return

The idea is to provide some indication to the user that a process is
running between page postbacks. For example, at our sites checkout page,
we have to exchange data with one of our vendors machiens and this can
take 30 seconds or so sometimes. We want to provide a small progress bar
style animation to the user while it is happening.

Ben