a couple things....

Ok i read a while ago about some guy that had created a "loading page" with cold fusion, basically what i want to do is have it output the html it allready has and have it say "loading..." untill the page loads, this is because it is outputing records and the records use alot of html code.

another thing im trieing to do is make a download page with a hitcounter, now i got the hitcounter part down but how do i do that effect to hold the counter off for 5 seconds and then start the download???


any help is appreciated!

<cfflush> will flush the output buffer to the user.

I'm not sure what you are asking in the second question...what are you referring to about "5 seconds"?

like when you go to a filesharing site, you click on a download and a window pops up in it text says "your download will begin in 5 seconds..." and 5 seconds later a download box comes up.

i know <cfflush> does it, but there was an article on the macromedia site about how to make a loading page, while cf executes your query and such.... i just cant remember where i read it exactly or what it was called.

The "start in 5 seconds" is just a meta refresh tag:

<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="5; URL=http://www.mysite.com">

The Flush would just be to create your "file loading" output text, flush that with cfflush, and then run the query after you've flushed that output.