Hi Glenn,

Yeah, I tried that as well... while it's true that it prevents you from interacting with the grid while the hourglass is displayed it doesn't quite cover the solution for spamming edits, you can still make the grid crash.

Is there no way to disable the grid while refreshing?

Regards

I assume that the goal is to avoid user from spamming changes on WebGrid during ‘Refresh’. Well, please allow me to offer you a trick for this scenario.

The idea is very simple. I have a div tag that has same dimension (width and height) with WebGrid. During WebGrid refresh, I simply set the z-index style of the div to a value that higher than the value of z-index of WebGrid. Practically, the div will be on top of WebGrid during refresh and will bring back WebGrid on top after WebGrid finish refresh.

We can utilize OnBeforeRequest and OnAfterResponseProcess client side event to set the z-index. Below is the snippet code of the page and the script.

Page code:

<div id="div1" style="height: 250px; width: 500px; position: absolute;
    background-color: #E5EECC; filter: alpha(opacity=50); -moz-opacity: 0.5; opacity: 0.5">
</div>
<ISWebGrid:WebGrid ID="WebGrid1" runat="server" DataSourceID="AccessDataSource1"
    Height="250px" UseDefaultStyle="True" Width="500px">
    <LayoutSettings AllowAddNew="Yes" AllowDelete="Yes" AllowEdit="Yes">
        <ClientSideEvents OnBeforeRequest="WebGrid1_OnBeforeRequest"
            OnAfterResponseProcess="WebGrid1_OnAfterResponseProcess" />
    </LayoutSettings>
    <RootTable>
    ...
    </RootTable>
</ISWebGrid:WebGrid>

Script code:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    <!--
    function WebGrid1_OnBeforeRequest(controlId, action) {
        var WebGrid1 = ISGetObject(controlId);
        var div1 = document.getElementById("div1");

        if (action == "Refresh")
            div1.style.zIndex = 1;

        return true;
    }

    function WebGrid1_OnAfterResponseProcess(controlId, actionName, lastRequestObject, xmlResponseObject) {
        var WebGrid1 = ISGetObject(controlId);
        var div1 = document.getElementById("div1");

        if (actionName == "Refresh")
            div1.style.zIndex = 0;

        return true;
    }
    -->
</script>

Hope this helps. If anyone has better idea, please kindly share with us.