Need very simple ''progress bar'' or a ''Please wait notice'' in javascript
I have a JSF portlet app, made in JSC. It uses remote EJB calls and some calls take a long time to finish. E.g. User clicks a button, some data are gathered, sent to an EJB and the app. is waiting for reply.
For the user it looks like this: Click ... Internet Explorer progress bar flashes, nothing happens for 30s, then the progress bar starts from zero again and loads the next page in 15s.
So I need a very simple notice in the middle of the screen, that will just say "Take a break, don't click the button again, please! ... " and animate a clock, a bar or whatever, maybe disabling the window so the user will not be able to push buttons. (The users are annoying folk!)
The message should dissapear as soon as the next (or the same) page loads.
I've never did javascript, so if anybody has a simple example code, I will be grateful and give him a duke or two. (And I really don't need the AJAX super-components)
