[Javascript] Remote Scripting

[Peter Brunone]

    Hmm... even if you display the element with the event handler *before*
you send off the Remote Scripting call?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Gibson" <andyg at ihug.co.nz>
To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 4:20 PM
Subject: RE: [Javascript] Remote Scripting


> Thanks Peter, I tried getting another element to show while the remote
> script was working but it didn't work. It doesnt seem to work until the
> remote script is finished....I cant get it to show at the start.
>
>  >
>  >     I don't know if it works cross-browser, but you can change the
mouse
>  > icon in IE with CSS like this:
>  >
>  > <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
>  > .link {
>  >  Cursor:text;
>  >  }
>  > </STYLE>
>  >
>  >     This of course only works when your mouse is over the element.
>  >
>  >     Have you considered showing/hiding an element that indicates
>  > progress?
>  >
>  >     Whatever you figure out, I'd be curious to hear; remote
>  > scripting is a
>  > cool idea, but they've made it frightfully hard to use.  If only we
could
>  > use IE for everything (they have a built-in object for that)...
>  >
>  > ----- Original Message -----
>  > From: "Andrew Gibson" <andyg at ihug.co.nz>
>  > To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>  > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 8:53 AM
>  > Subject: [Javascript] Remote Scripting
>  >
>  >
>  > > I've been playing around with remote scripting and got it working ok.
>  > > The script I'm using grabs some database from a database and
>  > drops it into
>  > a
>  > > Javascript function.
>  > >
>  > > But I've noticed, while it is getting the data, the mouse just
>  > stays as an
>  > > arrow and I'd like the mouse to be a hour glass, so the user knows
>  > something
>  > > is happening.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Andrew Gibson