Timing popwindow question

[PAJ]

Hello -
I have a web page that has to access a database and it could take a long time for data to come back to the page. I was thinking of having a small window or message pop that says to please be patient. Then when the content comes back from the database, the popped window or message would close.

Could anyone point me in the correct direction to get started with something like this?

Thanks!
PAJ

[Khalid Ali]

you can open the popup at the onclick event that sends the query to the database,and on the server side add an event to the onload event that closes any open child windows.
If it does not work then make your popup window look for the some flag which you sent in the onload event, once popup finds the flag it closes itself.