Try savingMessage.validateNow() - it should force an update of the text area.
-- Laurent Cozic Flash, Flex and Web Application development http://pogopixels.com ----- Original Message ---- From: Paul Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2008 9:33:56 AM Subject: RE: [SPAM]Re: [flexcoders] Delay before text is updated Thanks for the replies. My method basically creates a fairly large string and then writes this string to disk as an xml file. So are you saying, if my function takes say 10 seconds to complete, there will be no ENTER_FRAME dispatched during this time? If so then is there any function I can call to force an update to the screen – something like updateScreen( ) ? Thanks Paul From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto:flexcoders@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: 05 August 2008 08:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Subject: [SPAM]Re: [flexcoders] Delay before text is updated What does your method do? Most changes made to most components (such as changing the text property) won't be reflected on-screen until the next ENTER_FRAME is dispatched by the player due to the way Flex works internally. If your method is simply some gigantic or slow loop, you won't see anything until it's done- and you should probably split it apart and schedule it in pieces :) -Josh On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Paul Steven <paul_steven@ btinternet. com> wrote: Probably something really basic, but I am having trouble with delays updating some text on screen. Basically I want to display a message on screen to tell the user to wait whilst a save operation takes place and after the save operation change the text message back to blank. However I am not seeing this update. Here is the code savingMessage. text = "Saving. Please wait..."; _dataManager. createStudentDat aXMLFile( ); savingMessage. text = ""; Please note the createStudentDataXM LFile function takes about 10 seconds to complete so in theory the "Saving. Please wait..." message should appear for this time. If I put an alert in before the calling of the "createStudentDataXM LFile" function, then the text updates correctly. I have also experienced similar problems trying to get a "busy cursor to appear" using the cursor manager and a call such as CursorManager. setBusyCursor( ); Again, the problem here is the cursor is not updating as soon as I call the function. Anyone any ideas why these things are not updating on screen immediately? Thanks Paul p.s I am using Flex Builder and packaging in Zinc 2.5 -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com
