progress bar while waiting for server

Question

Some operations are time costly and it takes long time while waiting them to finish. Sometimes timeout occurs. I want to use a real time progress bar, so I want to show the sta

Answer 1

If you are using an javascript and ajax, you can call / initiate the process(in server) from java script using an ajax call.You can show the user a loading image till you get a response back from the server. www.ajaxload.info allows you to generate your own loading images. have a look @ it. if you use jquery ,things would be much easier.

Check these links

http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/load

http://www.shawngo.com/gafyd/index.html

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