[Plugin: Dave's WordPress Live Search] Spinning wheel doesn't show

Hi Paul! When you say “latest version” of the plugin, you mean 2.0.2, right? If you don’t mind, could you give the latest dev version a try?

https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/daves-wordpress-live-search.zip

It uses standard, supported mechanisms in WordPress to load CSS, JavaScript and, yes, even the spinning wheel animation.

It’s also possible it’s an incompatibility with your theme.

Hi Dave,

Yes, it is 2.0.2

I will go try the new version right now.

If you don’t mind, I have another question:

I have this working in a mobile version of the site. As we tested plugins to suite our needs we were using a a WP 2.9.2 site and V1.18 of your plugin in. It worked great! No issues.

But now in this current setting (WP 3.1 DWPLS V 2.0.2) I get intermittent Android browser crashing. After much testing I found it is this combination of WP and your plugin. Any ideas of why this might happen?

Thanks again for your speedy response!

Be well.

-Paul

I can only guess. I know there’s some kind of jQuery bug that crashes IE on page load. Maybe something like that in either jQuery or the jQuery Dimensions plugin file?

I also came across this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2601473/android-browser-crashes-on-ajax-calls-when-viewport-meta-tag-is-defined

Thanks. I came across that post at stackoverflow as well. I tried the one suggestion to add the additional handheld tag, but no dice. I am reluctant to to not use the viewport tag, as I use this to set the scale of the mobile site. Maybe I will try disabling for a test and see what happens.

If this is not it then I will look at the jquery. Do you think perhaps calling a different version would help? Perhaps one meant for mobile devices? Or google’s hosted version?

Thanks!

Hello again,

I downloaded the file you sent. And activated it. (It still says V2.0.2 FYI)

It did not fix the spinning wheel issue.

If this is a theme issue I would not know what to look at?? Could you kindly point me in a few directions to snoop around?

Thanks!

Hi Dave,

Don’t wanna be a pain. Was just wondering if you had any further suggestions re: my last comment.

Thanks again.

-P

Unfortunately, I don’t. Changes are some CSS or Javascript in your theme is preventing the spinning wheel from displaying in the right place. Finding the source of such conflicts can be a real pain.

You might find some consultants who can help you at codepoet.com, but they’re likely going to want you to pay for an hour or two of time to troubleshoot this.

Hi,
I had the same problem for a while and just found out that it’s a z-index problem. So setting z-index property to a big number solved the problem for me.

#search_results_activity_indicator{
z-index:999999;
}

Of course it may be caused by other reasons, just give it a try.

Hmmm…that’s the last thing I wanted to hear ??

I’m not a fan of z-index:99999. It just invites the next person who comes along to want their thingy one higher. But I guess I’d better put that in the default CSS files just to be safe.

Thanks for letting me know!