Hi,
I will be using the ultrawebtab as the main menu on our new home-grown management system. Easily moving from theQA section to the reports, etc.
My problem is that there is no indicator for the user that their request is being handled on any of the pages inside a tab. the IE tab icon is not replaced with the gray spinning wheel on the menu tab for the duration of their wait.
Is there a way to turn this on and off, or a setting somewhere that will automatically do that?
We use a mix of XP and Win7, along with IE7 - IE9. Application runs on IIS6 server.
Thanks.
Hi tdonley,
Could you please explain what exactly you want to achieve as I'm not sure I understand correctly your requirements. Do you want to display a loading image when switching between tabs?
thanks for responding, Nikolay
let me describe the menu i'm talking about here a bit more clearly. it's a horizontal ultrawebtab, and within each tab a user can run utilities (such as member services), and drill down to deeper level information.
for instance, initially clicking the member services (MS) tab yields a list of MS related options on that tab that a user can choose from. the user can then select an option, such as 'open member office', which will redirect the tab's content to the selected member's office information page.
next, while in the member's office on that tab, the user may choose to update office information by clicking a button and that will redirect to a data entry form. the form will still be on the MS tab.
and on and on. there are many variations on this.
the problem is that drilling down more that one level produces no visible indicator that a process is occurring. there is no way the user can tell if the computer is responding to his input. but typically, when a link is clicked on a page, the "e" on the windows tab is replaced by a spinning gray wheel, letting the user know that their input is being acted upon.
so, i want to know if there is a way to modify the ultrawebtab so that it will give some sort of indicator that a tab's content is responding to input. perhaps producing an hourglass icon or some such thing.
again, thanks for your help on this.
Terrance
Hi Terrance,
I am attaching a very basic sample of UltraWebTab. Clicking the button in first tab will cause the page to refresh and a loading icon will appear in the browser tab. This is the default behavior. In order to be able to investigate this further, I would need a isolated example, demonstrating the issue.
hi Nikolay,
i'm attaching an updated version of your attachment that better describes what i'm doing. the content pane on tab 2 now points (targeturl) to another page (Default2.aspx). so, the grid bind occurs only after selecting tab 2 and clicking the bind grid button, which transfers page to Default2.aspx. note that the IE 'e' no longer spins.
btw, we're on version 2020, so i updated my pages accordingly. you may have to reverse that to get it to run.
many thanks,
Hello Terrance,
Thank you for the example. After further research, I found that the UltraWebTab uses iframes to display the page, pointed by ContentUrl property. And under Internet Explorer, postbacks caused from inside an iframe does not display the loading icon. This is how IE handles such scenarios and not something caused by the tab control.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any other questions.
hi Nickolay,
it's too bad IE does that. i'll have to create a control then.
thanks for your help.