Question

I’m dealing with some inconsistencies on the loading message of jquerymobile. It seems that there is no rhyme or reason as to when the icon shows up. Sometimes it shows up right when I hit a button, other times it takes a second and then sometimes it doesn’t show at all. This is a big usability problem as it appears that my application isn’t doing anything and causes the user to tap again. I’d love for the loading button to show up all of the time, no matter the wait. Is there a way to ensure this? I’ve tried adding an onclick to each of my links with the following:

onclick="$.mobile.loading( 'show' );"

but that doesn’t seem to do anything. Any help provided would be most appreciated, thanks!

As a side note, I’ve found JqueryMobile incredibly buggy and hard to work with. It’s a promising platform but it is filled with issues.

Answer 1

Looks like you were using the wrong code to show the icon, this changed a couple versions ago in thinkL

the script to show it is:

 $.mobile.showPageLoadingMsg(); 

and to hide it is

$.mobile.hidePageLoadingMsg();