Hi,

Does Perl have something like a "gas gauge" ? There is a lot of processing to do with an order script, and I'm sure some users don't know to look at the bottom of the browser bar to see that (yes), there is something happening.

Even a simple "Please wait" message that appears whilst it is processing, and then disappears when complete would suffice. I also think some users may be closing the browser window, or of course, they can hit stop on the browser. This has some nasty effects if it happens in the middle of processing. If they have pressed "Confirm", then maybe some sort of spawned process would be better, so that even if they do exit/close, processing will continue , and complete.

Peter

In reply to Gas gauge ?? by peterr

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