Sleep Function or something similar

[biddingbong]

In Visual Basic, we have the Sleep function.
The program will wait for some specified seconds and then will go to the next procedure.
Can this be done in asp?
Like show a page for 5 seconds, and after that 5 seconds then response.write will write something.

 

[EBGreen]

WScript.Sleep nTime

Where nTime is the time to pause for in milliseconds.

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[Tarwn]

Actually, you don't want to sleep. Executing a sleep command in your ASP page will cause it to halt execution while it is still building the initial page. This means that even if you flush the buffer and force the current output to the client, when you continue writing you will still be outputting onto the same page. Not to mention the extra load you will put on your webserver by making that script take x + 5 seconds toload with each hit, will cause resource hogging and request pile-ups.

Instead I think what you want to do is either use a javascript function with a SetTimeout command to wait 5 seconds then change the page address, or a meta refresh tag to redirect to a second page after 5 seconds.

-T

 

[DreXor]

search google for "javascript loading message"

shows how to make a loading message that will show until the page is loaded, and then flips it to the content you want, without a redirect.

nice part about asp is you can force a .flush after the loading DIV so it's visible imediately, then chew the rest of the code out.

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[Tarwn]

*cough* or check the FAQs Two that I can remember off the top of my head, and I didn't write one of em

 

[biddingbong]

Its not a loading message.
The page will load normally,with all the tables, images, etc..
And after n Seconds, I want to response.write something on the page.

 

[Tarwn]

Look into using the javascript setTimeout in a client-side function then. Basically have your onLoad event in the body tag call the function. You can Response.Write all you want into that function then let the javascript take care of waiting the appropriate amount of time then either appending it to an existing span/div/etc or document.write'ing it to the screen.

Calling a sleep in ASP is to be avoided at all costs, for reasons mentioned earlier.

-T

 

[markdmac]

Anybody know if there is a vbscript equivalent to the setTimeout?

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark

 

[onpnt]

or you could do some awefull thing I saw the other day in a intranet application.

Do While NOT {some file found}
x=x+1
Loop

yup, still getting over it myself

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[onpnt]

just use jscript for you scripting and then you can have the setTimeout function

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[trollacious]

setTimeout is a window object function, and not available in ASP. On the client side, it should be the same in VBScript as in Javascript. Setting a timeout or sleep on the server side won't do what you want, but what Tarwn wrote will. Since you don't know the connection speed for an Internet viewer (this doesn't matter for intranet), you don't know how long it will take the page to get to the client, including any graphics. With a slow dialup connection, a server-side delay could mean no delay at all in the page displaying because of the lag for the dialup speed.

Lee

 

[markdmac]

Thought I would share this link I found that has a solution.

http://www.codeproject.com/asp/webtimer.asp

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark

 

[vbkris]

here's my approach:
have a setTimeout in javascript that will call redirect an iframe to an ASP page, get the iframe's innerHTML and write it to the main page.

maybe tht would solve it...

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