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Ashrafali
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Set the timeout to close the chooser after few seconds of selecting the files or

Once user choose the files and click the submit button in web application dropbox chooser I'm downloading the files in my backend by calling ajax function in success option of the chooser, if the fil...
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Ashrafali
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago
Thankyou, I got it but is there any option to close it? or hide it? If there is no options then I have different approach for that but just wants to know if there is any option to close or hide.
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
4 years ago

Ashrafali, I'm wrong in my previous post. Seems 'success' callback is called asynchronously. That's why it can't stop/delay chooser disappearance.

To be honest I can't reproduce your issue. 🤔 Can you share some code sniped representing it?

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    Greg-DB
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    4 years ago

    For reference, I can reproduce this, but only in some browsers (e.g., Chrome but not Firefox), so there seems to be some browser-specific implementation details that affect this.

     

    In any case, it still sounds like the right solution here is to move the long work out of the callback.

    • Здравко's avatar
      Здравко
      Legendary | Level 20
      4 years ago
      Greg-DB wrote:

      ...

      In any case, it still sounds like the right solution here is to move the long work out of the callback.

      Yes, one simple "fix" (might not be the best in all cases) can be replace function declaration like:

      success: function(files) {

      to something like:

      success: async function(files) {

       And yes, on Firefox it works with and without 'async'. I hope it will work on Chrome too (haven't tested it yet).

      Good luck Ashrafali!

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