How we implement "Please wait ...." screen in flex when app is busy

+2 A:

You can use the PopUpManager to create a Modal PopUp with an animated spinner. The Alert component does this. You can always reference the Alert source code to see how it works.

James Ward 2010-03-16 12:56:45

+1 A:

houser2112 2010-03-16 13:20:03

In my experience this doesn't work well when rebuilding UI components. I'm assuming the asker needs to build a lot of UI or else it wouldn't be taking so long as to appear frozen. If the flash player is working hard to process a display it can't be bothered to render a custom mouse at the same time. An option I use is to change the text of the button to "please wait..." and change it back to normal after the render is complete.

invertedSpear 2010-03-16 16:25:00

I've used it when dispatching events that call the back end. It works great when you're waiting for a responder to populate the model from the database. I guess I didn't think that it would interfere with the GUI rendering.

houser2112 2010-03-16 19:46:51

A:

on start

var waitingpopup:TitleWindow = new TitleWindow() waitingpopup.title = "Please Wait ..."

PopupManager.addPopup(waitingpopup, this, true)

on complete

PopupManager.removePopup(waitingpopup)

Nishu 2010-03-16 16:30:00

A:

Like the first poster suggested, create a modal popup. Instead of a spinner animation though, just make the popup a progress bar component.

Noohi 2010-03-16 18:27:48

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