Re: Screen Refresh (possible?)

Thanks guys, I've got it working now. I'm using a process running in a hidden frame which is simply making javascript calls to update the status bar of the browser window. I might try to make a cool little status bar function out of it later, but at least the user has a way to see what's going on now. Using flush was the missing element. I should have linked it in my head with ASP's response.buffer and response.flush, but it didn't click until you guys mentioned it. Thanks, Toby ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Killian" <Charles@AlcatrazDesignGroup.com> To: "Toby Miller" <tmiller@creativegeneration.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 12:43 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Screen Refresh (possible?) > I'm not sure you can keep reloading the entire frame but you can use flush() > to push the data in queue to the browser. > > Charles > ----- Original Message ----- > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 8:01 AM > Subject: [PHP] Screen Refresh (possible?) > > > Hey all, > > I've run across a situation that doesn't seem to have a resolution. I hope > I'm wrong about that. > > If I have a memory/cpu intensive process running in one of my scripts > (intensive enough to keep calling set_time_limit to keep it going) then I am > unable to print results/updates to the screen during the process. I have > tried this with no success. Any ouput I attempt to push to the screen > doesn't show up until the process is complete. > > What I'm actually doing is checking an email pop account. I would like to > send a javascript call after every message downloaded (in another frame) to > update a progress counter to let the user know what's going on. Without this > ability a lot of users may think the script is failing or stalled and hit > cancel or reload. > > The only point of reference I can come up with is writing a windows app in > Visual Basic. You can cause a form to refresh during a process like this > which will correctly update the form. Does anyone know of any way to get the > same result in PHP for the browser? > > Thanks in advance, > Toby >