onsubmit play flash

@luiddogOct 14.2006

I have a form and when the user submits it I would like to play a flash movie below it. A progress bar movie. The form takes a while to load and I don’t want users clicking it twice. I put a ‘Please click only once’ thing next to it but I think what would reall look good is when the user submits the form a small flash progress bar will appear to indicate to the user that it is working. I thought that I could just create a continous movie so it can just always loop progress. It could even be playing the whole time and onsubmit it just appears. Any ideas?

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@abzOct 14.2006 — #if you just want a bar with a coloured block zipping across it, you might want to consider using an animated gif, as it would probably load faster.

how about, on submit, a mini-window appears with the loading image/swf, then once the new page has loaded, the mini window is closed. you could do that with javascript functions on the submit button and the new page.

As a side note, users tend to dislike things that are not helpful. ie. your loading bar that doesnt actually tell you how far it has got. ~If it is just feedback you want, to tell the user that the submit has registered, then you can do that with an alert box. People will expect a loader bar to display progress, so showing a loader bar with no actual information may be considered useless by some.

@luiddogauthorOct 14.2006 — #on submit, a mini-window appears with the loading image/swf, then once the new page has loaded, the mini window is closed. you could do that with javascript functions on the submit button and the new page.
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How would that be done?

@abzOct 14.2006 — #errrr, Im no JavaScript pro but i guess you would call a predefined function on the submit button <input type="submit" value="Submit your details" onclick=(yourFunction) />

the function would be something like:

function yourFunction(){

var openLoader = window.open("http://yourloaderURL.gif.swf","myLoaderWindow","width:x , height=y, menubar=0 , status=0, toolbar=0, scrollbars=0");

}

then on the new page, have something like:

window.close("myLoaderWindow")

there are bound to be millions of errors in that....but i hope it was of some assistance ?

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