Hi all, I've written a little Rebol app to learn on, which, on running, simply reads my pop email box and displays the from, subject and date fields in a list. Now, the window does not show until the network read is done. Because the network read is slow, the window does not appear straight away. In fact the Rebol icon does not appear on the task bar (Windows NT 4) until the window is created. In my Powerbuilder work, I strike the same problem when a user opens a window that must show the results of a database read. To the user this looks like the application is slow. What is normally done in Powerbuilder is to declare a post-open event for the window. Then in the code that runs at window-open, POST a message to the window's event queue. So that after the window opens and is painted (and anything else is done) the system comes to the post-open event which will then do the database call. The end result is that windows open almost instantaneously (so the user sees that it is working) and then the information fills down the page. I would like to achieve something similiar with my little learning rebol app. My guess is that the same technique could possibly be used, but I'm not sure. Or others may have a different technique. I've considered opening a "dummy" initial window that then calls the other stuff , but I used to do that stuff years ago in more primitive (user interface days) so I would like something a little more neat and elegant :) Brett.
