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Any way to suspend the user for a moment from doing ANYTHING??

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Jun 20.2006

I’m writing an asynchronous script and I noticed that if the user clicks things too quickly, all the updates don’t get written.

I was wondering if anyone knew a way to suspend all user activity for a few seconds. Preferrably through a setInterval so I can match it to a condition.

Thanks

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@phpnoviceJun 20.2006 — No easy way, no. However, if you need to suspend activity, you might as well be writing a synchronous script. :p
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@slaughtersJun 20.2006 — phpnovice defintly has a point. Might as well as change the Ajax response to being synchronous instead of asynch.

But I've occasionally wanted an impatient user to just click "submit" on a form once (versus 5 or 6 times just because the connection is slow), so I've used the technique of positioning a div tag that says "WAIT" over parts of the screen I did not want the user to click on.
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@JulianJJun 20.2006 — Untested, but something like this might work:

<div style='position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;z-index:100;width:100%;height:100%;'></div>

Julian
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@s_mkauthorJun 20.2006 — Doh! :o

meant synchronous....but not Ajax. I always get synch/async mixed up.


I'll try the giant div if all else fails, but I think I'll try to find a more elegant solution first. I'll post any solutions. But if someone as an alternate theory, please...let it fly.


thx a bunch

s_mk
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