Batch/Block-Mode updates to Select Lists - How to avoid?

Hi,

I have this Applet-hosted Socket connection to my server and in an
ONevent/function I am retrieving all these lovely rows from the server and
inserting them into the Select-List. (The on screen appearance of the Select
List grows for the first 5 rows then the scroll bar appears if there's
more). So far so good. . .

The problem is that none of the rows I'm inserting appear on the screen
until I have RETURNed from my function; so If it ended up being 1000 rows
then the user sees nothing until they're *all* processed :-( Is this an
IE6-only thing? Does it happen with Version 7 or with other browsers? This
is disgusting!

Is there an option to set somewhere?

Do I have to hack/force some sort of event (with coresponding ONfunction)
and then RETURN from my function and have the ensuing function call me back
and repeat till eof? Yuck.

All I want to do is see my rows grow and counter increment in the
select-list (or table) as they appear; is that really too much to ask? Is
IBM3270 emulation crap really as far as we've got?

Regards Richard Maher

PS. The funny thing (or glimmer of hope!) is, when I loop till
list.options.length = 0 {list.remove(list.options[0])} I see the rows
disappear before my eyes. (Admittedly when i set the list.size = 1 it does
not take immediate effect but we're getting somewhere right? (I set it to 1
'cos I re-insert a "header row" at [0]))



.

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