[Javascript] Thanks & follow-up,

[Shawn Milo]

I'm of the "frames are evil" school of thought, and have worked to successfully remove them from our corporate intranet, now that I run it.  As for iframes, I have no experience, but I see where one might come in handy for another aspect of this project.

Shawn

> Shawn Milo wrote:
> 
> > Follow-up question:  Although this works, it does not 
> > bring up the window until the page has loaded (obviously),
> > and since the page is running some ASP code and reading
> > from a database, it could take a few seconds.  In that time,
> > the person could click the button again, thus re-starting
> > the entire process.
> > 
> > So is there a way to, from JavaScript included on the main
> > page, bring that window to the fore? If not, I suppose that 
> > I could always disable the button temporarily, and replace
> > the button value with 'Please Wait'.  Ideas?
> 
> Alternatively, you could decouple your popup window from the running
> background process by using frames or an iframe, so the main part of
> the window loads immediately, grabs focus, and waits for the DB data
> (while possibly displaying a "loading..." message).
> 
> FWIW,
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