Wait Icon

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am calling a FM from the WDOINT method in Component Controller. But, it takes about 1 min to bring the data back to my ALV table. During this wait the screen remains blank.. I want to put icon such as WAIT. I have a button in my application and when I click this button it brings the Wait Icon automatically untill the FM runs and the result is displyaed, but it does not appear if I am calling from wdoinit method.

Is there anything else I can do using TimedTrigger or any other element to indicate the users that the application is running.. Any suggestions shall be appreciated.

Thks & Rgds,

Hemal

[thomas_jung]

You always want to be careful how much processing you do in the initialization of the application. The rendering on the client side has been fully started yet and as you found out can't produce the wait message if you tie up processing too early. Better to structure your application in such a way that the long data lookups only happen after user input to avoid long startups.