Progress within a while statement

[SirEddy]

How can I show the progress while in a while statement? All I see here is that any method I have tried to use waits until the while is completed to update. I really don't care if it is a textual or graphical progress display as long as it is real time.

 

[DonHawaii]

One possible solution is to open a small window that just shows some time passing graphic or whatever. The page with the while tag will basically freeze until the while is done. But a seperate window will not.

You might be able to pass info out of the loop to the child window, but I've never tried to do that so don't know if it will work or not.

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[SirEddy]

And again same problem. No matter what is done is has to happen in the same function as the while statement. Nothing happens including the child window until that is done.
I this just a limitation of javascript... that repainting or what ever just does not happen on command?

 

[BabyJeffy]

You can use setTimeout() to achieve some kind of real time update - it may require some thinking. If you have some specific code in mind, let us know.

Cheers,
Jeff

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