[vmchecker-dev] bug: gui freezes buttons durring login

[Claudiu-Dan Gheorghe]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Lucian Adrian Grijincu
<lucian.grijincu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My network connection dropped, before I pushed "Login".
> The GUI made a request to the services, but could not complete it.
On failure, the form is activated again.


>
> After a bit the network connection was re-established, but I could not
> do anything with the GUI: the username/password and login buttons were
> all disabled.
You did not wait a certain timeout for entering in failure routine I guess.

>
> As I see it this servers two purposes:
> * let the user know you're processing the request
> * prevent him from submitting too may requests

This is not about sending too many requests, but useless requests. A
common user mistake is to double-click on a submit button, for
example.

> To prevent scenarios as I described above, a solution would be to
> unblock the controls after two seconds from blocking them.

As I sad before, the re-activation on failure is already implemented.


-- 
Claudiu