Popup window control

[DaaaDaaa]

Hi,

I have a little popup window, that runs a query, then writes the query
resultset back to parent window, sometime, this process could take
some time, so, I'd like this little popup window to display something
like "Please wait".
I tried both adding document.write( "Please wait ...")> to the top of
the popup window file/script and plain HTML Please wait ... to the top
of the popup, neither displays. How come?

TIA

[Lee]

Re: Popup window control

DaaaDaaa said:[color=blue]
>
>Hi,
>
>I have a little popup window, that runs a query, then writes the query
>resultset back to parent window, sometime, this process could take
>some time, so, I'd like this little popup window to display something
>like "Please wait".
>I tried both adding document.write( "Please wait ...")> to the top of
>the popup window file/script and plain HTML Please wait ... to the top
>of the popup, neither displays. How come?[/color]

It's hard to guess without seeing some code.
You're probably not loading the contents of the popup until
the query has returned.

[DaaaDaaa]

Re: Popup window control

> It's hard to guess without seeing some code.[color=blue]
> You're probably not loading the contents of the popup until
> the query has returned.[/color]
Thanks but that would defeat the purpose. The point is, to display a
msg that it's loading ...
Thus, the msg must display while the loading process starts.
And that's the reason why I place the document.write( "Please wait
....") to
top of the script, and yet to no avail.

My thinking is on structured/procedural process while js is oo, hence,
js is not cooperating?