Can anyone enlighten me on how to create a loading screen? I want whenever you press a submit button, instead of waiting for the cgi to run a nd spit back your results, a screen pops up saying loading or somehting of that nature so that the user knows that something is going on and that it's not timing out.<br><br><br>I hope someone understands this...<br><br>HELP....
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Javascript is the only way I can think of doing it. Either an alert box the user closes, or maybe creating a new document and loading some HTML code into it saying "Loading" etc...<br><br>Then an event onLoad event set up in the page created by the CGI to close the window again?<br><br>So you have: <br><br>onSubmit on your main page linked to a function that creates a new window and HTML document inside saying "Loading..."<br><br>An onLoad event on the page being created by your CGI script which closes the loading window.<br><br>If you didn't want a new window you could possibly reload the existing one with the "loading." message screen and then replace that with your CGI-Generated code...<br><br>Not sure how to actually write any of that though!<br><br>Hope it helped<br>Loon
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Damann,<br><br> here goes... 
<br><br><FONT FACE=monospace><html><br><head><br><script language="JavaScript"><br><!--<br>var load_msg = "Loading, please wait...";<br>//--><br></script><br></head><br><body><br><form method=get action="yourPerlScript.pl" onSubmit="document.write(load_msg);"><br>Form stuff..... if you want it and then....<br><p><br><input type="submit" value="click me!" name="form1"><br></form><br></body><br></html></font><br><br>I think that might do it, I am not sure if the onSubmit event will take precedence over the script getting run as I've never tried anything like this but it should give you a starting point. I gave it a quick test and although the script was started and didn't exist hence I got an error page straight away, when I did a BACK on my browser the message was there. Let me know how you get on!<br><br>Hope that helped<br>Loon
<br><br><FONT FACE=monospace><html><br><head><br><script language="JavaScript"><br><!--<br>var load_msg = "Loading, please wait...";<br>//--><br></script><br></head><br><body><br><form method=get action="yourPerlScript.pl" onSubmit="document.write(load_msg);"><br>Form stuff..... if you want it and then....<br><p><br><input type="submit" value="click me!" name="form1"><br></form><br></body><br></html></font><br><br>I think that might do it, I am not sure if the onSubmit event will take precedence over the script getting run as I've never tried anything like this but it should give you a starting point. I gave it a quick test and although the script was started and didn't exist hence I got an error page straight away, when I did a BACK on my browser the message was there. Let me know how you get on!<br><br>Hope that helped<br>Loon- Status
