topic Wait message in Share javascript component object in Alfresco Archive

Wait message in Share javascript component object

fast3r — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:46:46 GMT

Hi everybody,I'm trying to configurate a waiting message in the javascript part of a Webscript. In a few words, when a user changes the selection of a select field, some operations are made in the page DOM and, until they're finished, I want a message to be displayed to the user.I have an event list

Re: Wait message in Share javascript component object

mikeh — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:54:19 GMT

By default, the pop-up messages animate in on a 0.5 second animation. Because you're tying up the browser, it doesn't have enough idle time to run this so you get the effect you've described.

Try:

         this.widgets.busyMessage = Alfresco.util.PopupManager.displayMessage(
         {
            text: message,
            spanClass: "wait",
            displayTime: 0,
            effect: null
         });‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Also be careful of trailing commas in object literal sections - that code would have thrown errors on MSIE browsers.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Wait message in Share javascript component object

fast3r — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:34:40 GMT

Thank you for the answer!
I've tried the solution you listed, unfortunately nothing changes. I've also tried to set effectDuration to 0 and setting a different displayTime, but unsuccesfully.
The message div appears after the other code!
It's really weird…

Re: Wait message in Share javascript component object

mikeh — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:51:28 GMT

I guess the browser isn't getting enough time to render the DIV. You could try wrapping your long-running function in a YAHOO.lang.later() call. See http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs/YAHOO.lang.html#method_later for details.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Wait message in Share javascript component object

fast3r — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:50:47 GMT

I guess the browser isn't getting enough time to render the DIV.

I think this is the real problem.
Do you mean to trap the (sometimes) long running function or the throwing message function?
I've tried both with no results. I think there is a conflict between the Alfresco mechanism for showing the message div and my function, which makes some modifications to the page DOM.

Thanks anyway for your help!