[OpenLayers-Users] GetFeatureInfo does not display animated gif icon in IE6

[Peter Dawn]

Hi Eric,

You are probably right. Do you know of a workaround this. Why does IE
not render a GIF while processing the getfeatureinfo request. Perhaps
I can display text 'Please wait'.

Cheers.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Eric Lemoine<eric.lemoine at camptocamp.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Peter Dawn<petedawn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I am working on a Geoserver/OpenLayer web application. I need to test it in IE6.
>>
>> Now I have a GetFeatureInfo function, where the user clicks on the map
>> and I do a GetFeatureInfo call and I display the results on the
>> screen.
>>
>> The function is working well. However I want to display a animated GIF
>> wait icon, while its retrieving data. So I have the following,
>> icon = new OpenLayers.Icon("images/loader.gif",size,null,myOffset);
>>
>> This displays the icon, but it does not animate. I am unable to figure
>> out why. Can somebody tell me what I need to get it to work. It works
>> fine in FF.
>
> Hi.
>
> Just guessing... It may be that IE is busy parsing the GFI response.
>
> Cheers,
>
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