If there are no controls on the form, you could just use a bitmap instead of
a form. Save an area of the screen, draw you bitmap, do your processing,
restore the screen.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Combee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: Popping up forms and events flow
>
> "Phil Hodge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:53926@palm-dev-forum...
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have the following scenario: I would like to pop up a modal form
> with no
> > buttons on it (so it can't be a conventional FrmDoDialog which is
> dismissed
> > by a button click). I need it to say something such as 'Please
> wait...'
> > while I perform an operation which is going to take a while, then
> dismiss it
> > after the operation has finished.
> > I can achieve this using FrmPopupForm, and respond to the frmOpen
> event by
> > calling the processing and then doing an FrmReturnToForm(0).
>
> Phil, will the "Please Wait" form have any user controls? If not, then
> you can manage things yourself.
>
> 1) Put up the form using a series of
>
> oldform = FrmGetActiveForm
> FrmInitForm
> FrmDrawForm
> FrmSetActiveForm(newForm)
>
> 2) Do your processing. If you want to update it, use the various Frm
> and Ctl calls to update items on the active form
>
> 3) When you're done, do
>
> FrmEraseForm
> FrmDeleteForm
> FrmSetActiveForm (oldForm)
>
> Make sure your newForm as the "saveBehind" bit set, and bam, you've made
> a modal popup with no event handling.
>
> If you want to be friendly, suring your processing loop, you need to set
> up an event loop... for that kind of advanced dialog work, look at the
> application dialog code that Aaron Ardiri publishes in his sample code
> at www.ardiri.com.
>
>
>
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