Richfaces.showModalPanel is not showing progress

[lenyas66]

I have experienced a strange problem recently while using Richfaces.showModalPanel method.

I used to use it to show progress action during processing of the request.

Attached file is supposed to show squares filling with blue from left to right while request is processed.

Code is as follows:

<a4j:status onstart="Richfaces.showModalPanel('ajaxLoadingModalBox',{width:470, top:200})" 

onstop="Richfaces.hideModalPanel('ajaxLoadingModalBox')" />

<

rich:modalPanel id="ajaxLoadingModalBox" minHeight="70" minWidth="470"

height="70" width="470" zindex="2000">

<h:graphicImage value="images/loading.gif"/>

</rich:modalPanel>

Recently though it stopped working in IE (version 7.0.5730.13CO, build 75730) and all squares just remain white, so users couldn't know, if anything is going on.

I noticed that it still works in Mozilla Firefox though.

Any ideas why it might not work in IE?

Thanks,

[lenyas66]

As I investigated, this actually happened because I had "Play animation in web pages" setting disabled in my IE 7.

After I enabled it using the following instructions it works fine.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/accessibility/turnoffanimations.mspx

Does anybody know though, if it could be done programmatically for users, who have it disabled?

[boy18nj]

Hi Leonid,

I am interested to know how did you generated that gif image. Can you let me know its source, so I can too generate a customized gif images. And I can write text inside gif images tailored towards my requirements.