How to make buttons unclickable when one of them is clicked

Question

Hello,
I am using JDev 11.1.1.4.0.
I have a jspx page that has 6 command buttons. Some of them process the data present in the form and some of them are for navigation. Problem is when a user clicks a command button and clicks other button impatiently if the first process takes some time. Most of the time the app is able to handle this behavior, but when it fails it fails with 404 error(I'm speculating).
Is there a quick and easy way to make rest of the buttons unclickable until the process finishes? I was going to handle this in backing bean to set the disable property to false when one of them is clicked, but cannot figure out when to set them back to disable=false.
Many thanks in advance for the help.
Bones Jones

Answer 1

Shay,
I tried something like this, but didn't work for me:
public void submit(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
        disableButtons(true);
        ADFUtil.invokeEL("longProcess");
        disableButtons(false);
}Debugging line by line, I found out even after the disableButtons(true) line, the buttons were still clickable. Curious, I put the disableButtons(true) at the end of the method, buttons were disabled when the control came back to the user. So it seems to me only the last diableButton() call before returning control has the influence.