Hello Chip,
Thank you for your response and I must not have been clear in the other
thread. Don't know why the thread got split?
I did try some On Timer approaches but not yours exactly.
But for me HIGHLIGHT RECORDS works by itself as a replacement for REDRAW
WINDOW!
Very simple and apparently pretty efficient.
Cheers!
Alan
On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 10:07 AM Chip Scheide <4d_o...@pghrepository.org>
wrote:
> Alan,
> try:
> On Click or On Data change (for your boolean)
> set timer(1) or some other small value
>
> in the form method, On Timer
> call process(current process)
> or Call Process(-1)
>
> Chip
> > Hello again Bernd,
> >
> > I tried several other things but never got anything to work other than my
> > original code. I even tried setting a timer and running your code there,
> > but it still didn't redraw each line of the display.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Alan
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 5:37 AM Alan Tilson <alantil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Bernd,
> >>
> >> Your solution seemed much more elegant than mine, which was to cut and
> use
> >> a named selection, but for some reason it doesn't work for me. The
> boolean
> >> variable that I'm clicking on goes grey and nothing else changes. If I
> >> click another window and come back the boolean and the rows do update.
> >>
> >> Any ideas about what might be different?
> >>
> >> I tried HIDE WINDOW / SHOW WINDOW which caused a flicker but not a
> redraw
> >> as did HIDE PROCESS / SHOW PROCESS.
> >>
> >> I also tried Open Window / CLOSE WINDOW... didn't work.
> >>
> >> This does work with some side effects, especially if the user has
> scrolled
> >> down...
> >>
> >> CUT NAMED SELECTION(Current form table->;"tempNS")
> >> USE NAMED SELECTION("tempNS")
> >> HIGHLIGHT RECORDS
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks from North Carolina,
> >> Alan Tilson
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 2:18 AM Bernd Fröhlich via 4D_Tech <
> >> 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Alan Tilson:
> >>>
> >>>> Has anyone had issues with REDRAW WINDOW working differently or not
> >>> working
> >>>> in v17? I have an output form with a boolean variable in the header
> that
> >>>> affects the text color of the fields in each line of output as well as
> >>>> determining which of a few optional fields are displayed. If I call
> >>> REDRAW
> >>>> WINDOW after changing the boolean variable the records list does not
> >>>> change. If I click on another window and come back to the original
> >>> window
> >>>> everything updates.
> >>>>
> >>>> This worked fine in v13.
> >>>>
> >>>> Am I missing something?
> >>>
> >>> 4D V6 or V7 was the last version where REDRAW WINDOW was redrawing the
> >>> whole window, then 4D began to "optimize" the redrawing. Maybe it
> >>> is faster
> >>> now, but it definitely is no longer working as expected.
> >>> My workaround:
> >>>
> >>> // Methode: RedrawWindow
> >>> // Angelegt: BF 16.09.03
> >>> // Objekt: Dienstroutine
> >>> // Beschreibung: Umgehung für das seit 4D 2003 nicht mehr zuverlässig
> >>> funktionierende Redraw Window
> >>> // ----------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> C_LONGINT($lLeft;$lTop;$lRight;$lBottom)
> >>>
> >>> GET WINDOW RECT($lLeft;$lTop;$lRight;$lBottom)
> >>> SET WINDOW RECT($lLeft;$lTop;$lRight-1;$lBottom)
> >>> SET WINDOW RECT($lLeft;$lTop;$lRight;$lBottom)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Gives a short flicker, but is the only way I know of to actually
> redraw a
> >>> window.
> >>> Maybe someone else has found another solution without the flicker?
> >>>
> >>> Greetings from Germany,
> >>> Bernd Fröhlich
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