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JLA Board Member
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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 5:25 pm Post subject: Adding "waiting" spinner to PHPBB2 |
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Anyone know of a good easy wait to add a little "waiting" spinner (like the one on the iPhone, etc) to PHPBB2 as pages are transitioning, uploading content, waiting for search results, etc?
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Dog Cow Board Member
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:02 pm Post subject: Re: Adding "waiting" spinner to PHPBB2 |
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Dog Cow wrote: | This is a feature of some browsers. IE, IIRC. |
What I am more speaking of is something like a DHTML or similar spinner that would appear mid-page say while the page is waiting for a response to posting, uploading an attachment, picture, song, etc. Kind of a page transition effect, etc too. _________________ http://www.jlaforums.com |
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 4:57 pm Post subject: Re: Adding "waiting" spinner to PHPBB2 |
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Dog Cow Board Member
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 2:51 pm Post subject: Re: Adding "waiting" spinner to PHPBB2 |
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I think that you'll either need to look into "page transitions," which is a browser specific feature, or do something fancy with Javascript, such as AJAX page loading. _________________ Moof!
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 3:21 pm Post subject: Re: Adding "waiting" spinner to PHPBB2 |
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Dog Cow wrote: | I think that you'll either need to look into "page transitions," which is a browser specific feature, or do something fancy with Javascript, such as AJAX page loading. |
Would you happen to know a specific mod or solution for this?
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Acaria Board Member
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 5:41 pm Post subject: Re: Adding "waiting" spinner to PHPBB2 |
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This should be of some help
Basically, this is done with AJAX. I have a system sort of like this running on my site and it works wonders.
Though I can't really explain much of it. One of the other developers added it into our AppleJAX, not me. I don't know anything about AJAX. XD |
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JLA Board Member
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 12:54 am Post subject: Re: Adding "waiting" spinner to PHPBB2 |
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Was hoping for a mod already integrated. I believe I saw something like this out in dev back in 05 or so. _________________ http://www.jlaforums.com |
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