Animated Gif stops on form submit

[BlobFisk]

Hi All,

I'm working on a browser based CRM system at the moment where we have removed all toolbars and the status bar from the users view.

I want to display some form of visual cue to the user that the system is working (similar to the blue line on the IE status bar) and I tried poping up a layer onClick that displays an animated gif.

However, the animation stops while the system is busy. Does anyone know of a workaround to this or am I stuck using the <marquee> tag?

TIA

[asquithea]

The obvious answer would be to give the user their status bar back...

[BlobFisk]

That would seem like the obvious answer, and would indeed be the correct one for any web based system. However, this is a learned application and bending certain rules is allowable in this situation.

I would prefer to leave the status bar in place, but space is at a premium and the client insists that it stays out.

[korkus2000]

Is the form submitting to a new page or is it being process by client side script?

What about poping up a new window with the animation that closes from the openers onload event? You can also return false to a javascript process that will fire off animations agian.

[BlobFisk]

Is the form submitting to a new page or is it being process by client side script?

It's submitting to a new page essentially (J2EE DB search).

I thought about the popup-up window, but unfortunately our style guide for the app forbids them! The <marquee> tag is working fine (IE only environment!), but it's just not as pretty as the animated gif! ;)

Thanks all!