Forum OpenACS Development: Re: ad_progress_bar extension: Continuously update status information

Hi Ham, that would be neat if you could squeeze it in. I am looking forward to your update of ajaxhelper!

Thanks
Malte

The latest version of ajaxhlper using template::head has been committed to CVS HEAD.

After upgrading/installing, please read ajax/doc/ on your local install for information about template::head.

The test that has a demo of the progress bar can be seen in ajax/www/tests/

However, while writing the api and the test, I realized that this solution might not be what you are looking for. The reason is that you need to stream the status from the server to the browser but javascript doesn't execute until the whole page is loaded. I tried using Ajax but it's the same thing.

Perhaps it's possible to use an iframe to output javascript as the install runs. This javascript will then update the progressbar on the parent page where the iframe is embedded.

I hope this helps. Good Luck !