Wait message in Share javascript component object

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fast3r

Hi everybody,
I'm trying to configurate a waiting message in the javascript part of a Webscript. In a few words, when a user changes the selection of a select field, some operations are made in the page DOM and, until they're finished, I want a message to be displayed to the user.

I have an event listener for the select change in the standard Alfresco onReady function:

YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(some_select_field_element, "change", this.applyFilters, this, true);‍

The applyFilters() function is something like this:

this._setBusy(message);

// do some long operations

this._releaseBusy();
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And the  _setBusy() and _releaseBusy() are:

      _releaseBusy: function Schedule_releaseBusy()
      {
         if (this.busy)
         {
            this.widgets.busyMessage.destroy();
            this.busy = false;
            return true;
         }
         else
         {
            return false;
         }
      },

      _setBusy: function Schedule_setBusy(message)
      {
         if (this.busy)
         {
            return false;
         }
         this.busy = true;
         this.widgets.busyMessage = Alfresco.util.PopupManager.displayMessage(
         {
            text: message,
            spanClass: "wait",
            displayTime: 0,
         });
         return true;
      },
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The question is that the message is showed only AFTER the "long operations" have been made, just a few time before the _releaseBusy() function call. Why??! Am I missing something?
I have seen this pattern in a few components in Share, for example when deleting a Site, and it works correctly!

Thank you for any help…

mikeh

By default, the pop-up messages animate in on a 0.5 second animation. Because you're tying up the browser, it doesn't have enough idle time to run this so you get the effect you've described.

Try:

         this.widgets.busyMessage = Alfresco.util.PopupManager.displayMessage(
         {
            text: message,
            spanClass: "wait",
            displayTime: 0,
            effect: null
         });‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Also be careful of trailing commas in object literal sections - that code would have thrown errors on MSIE browsers.

Thanks,
Mike