[Mapserver-users] How to show a delay image during launch of the VM

[Ed McNierney]

Roman -

The Java VM is loaded from the user's LOCAL machine, and has nothing to
do with the speed of their internet connection.  The delay is while your
APPLET is loaded, either locally or from your server.

You should make sure that (a) you don't have extra features in the
applet, so it's as small as possible and (b) tell your users that if
they're really loading the VM for that long, they need a faster computer
<g>.

I do not know of any way to display an alternate image while the applet
is loading, unfortunately.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
Phone: (978) 251-4242  Fax: (978) 251-1396
ed at topozone.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Mapserver [mailto:mapserver at gismap.ch] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 2:06 PM
To: Mapserver-Userlist
Subject: [Mapserver-users] How to show a delay image during launch of
the VM

Hi list
I use mapplet/jbox and I have a little problem. Clients with slow
computers
accessing my mapserver-website have to wait for a long time until the
Sun-VM
ist loaded. During that time the users have a blank screen (!) for up to
20
seconds until the user-interface of mapserver appears.
I have to find a way to avoid a blank screen and to replace it with an
information or a little animation until the interface appears. Any
ideas,
how this can be realized?

Thanks for help
Roman

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