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jaems
 
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Default twiddle my thumbs - 12-23-2007 , 03:03 AM






When the user clicks a button on my page a series of rather time consuming
SQL searches take place before the results are returned to the same page.

How can I display something indicating that that the user needs to wait and
twiddles their thumbs for a bit.
I could go to another page but how do I get back when the data is ready?


jaez


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Alexey Smirnov
 
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Default Re: twiddle my thumbs - 12-23-2007 , 04:28 AM






On Dec 23, 9:03*am, "jaems" <ja... (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com> wrote:
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When the user clicks a button on my page a series of rather time consuming
SQL searches take place before the results are returned to the same page.

How can I display something indicating that that the user needs to wait and
twiddles their thumbs for a bit.
I could go to another page but how do I get back when the data is ready?

jaez
If it returns to the same page I would recommend to use Ajax and
UpdateProgress control
http://www.asp.net/AJAX/Documentatio...sOverview.aspx


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Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]
 
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Default RE: twiddle my thumbs - 12-23-2007 , 10:45 PM



How about an animated gif of thumbs "twiddling"?:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...-gifs-and.aspx
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"jaems" wrote:

Quote:
When the user clicks a button on my page a series of rather time consuming
SQL searches take place before the results are returned to the same page.

How can I display something indicating that that the user needs to wait and
twiddles their thumbs for a bit.
I could go to another page but how do I get back when the data is ready?


jaez



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Default Re: twiddle my thumbs - 12-26-2007 , 04:55 AM



but if he doesn't use ajax, the page will refresh and animated gif will
disappear

"Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]" <pbromberg (AT) yahoo (DOT) NoSpamMaam.com> wrote

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How about an animated gif of thumbs "twiddling"?:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...-gifs-and.aspx
-- Peter
Site: http://www.eggheadcafe.com
UnBlog: http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com
MetaFinder: http://www.blogmetafinder.com


"jaems" wrote:

When the user clicks a button on my page a series of rather time
consuming
SQL searches take place before the results are returned to the same page.

How can I display something indicating that that the user needs to wait
and
twiddles their thumbs for a bit.
I could go to another page but how do I get back when the data is ready?


jaez



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