message for user

[chintupintu03]

Hi all,

In my form a large number of records are getting processed from different tables. The processing starts, after the user has taken some action.

My problem is, while the records get processed in the background, I want to make the user wait to finish the processing. But the user does not get idea whether the program is running or not. So, I want to simply show some message "Process is going on ... Please wait" or similar to that.

[ It is similar to, when a user gets logged in on a website, some message is displayed to user before teh actual page is displayed. ]

How to write the code for my above query ?

[zapa]

http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/javascript/basic/alert.html

Use JavaScript to show Popup msg box

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<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
alert('This is what an alert message looks like.');
</script>
The text inside the parentheses is what is shown in the alert message. If you want to show a string of literal text, enclose the text in quotes. To display variable values, enter the variable name without quotes. You can also combine variable values and text strings by using the + sign. For example:

function shwAlert() {
var country = "Fiji";
var city = "Suva";
alert('The city of ' + city + ' is located in ' + country + '.');
}

<input type="button" value="Click Here" onClick="showAlert();">
This will create the following button - click it to see the alert:

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[chintupintu03]

Hi zapa,

Got ur reply. I have not used the code given by u. But is it not that, the alert message will displayed first and after responding to the alert, the actual process start? [ as per the code mentioned by u ].

What I actually want to do is, let the records processing begin, by the time it gets completed, user should be noticed that some action is going on.

[chintupintu03]

Hi all,

Instead of calling a function, as suggested by zapa, I am "echo" ing the message in the loop, where the records are being processed.

Now, the problem is, the message gets displayed repeated in continuation and overfows the screen,depending upon the number of records being processed.

How should I show the message, at a particular location ( and it should be get overwritten on previous message. So the user will see the message only once, but in actual it is getting showed as the numberof records processed. )

[zapa]

If you want the user to click on YES or NO in a Alert box,
then look at this website for help

http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/column22/js-vbNewjs.html