Hi -

I've put the code here - https://github.com/DevonMcC/GUI-examples - it's
the deNormalizeDE.ijs file.

Any tips would be appreciated.

Regards,

Devon

On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 12:05 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can you put the complete code somewhere? (Like, for example, in a gist?)
>
> It's hard to debug something that cannot work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
>
> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > I've got my J 8.03 simple GUI window basically working - all it does is
> get
> > an input and output file.  The ten lines of code that do the work in
> which
> > I'm interested are dwarfed by the 90 or so lines of GUI code.
> >
> > However, I still don't understand how to update a message area as I
> proceed.
> >
> > Right now, the code invoked by my "Done" button looks like this:
> >
> > iofiles_doneBtn_button=: 3 : 0
> >    inpfl_Input_=. inpfl_Input_-.LF
> >    if. '/'={:outpfl_Input_ do.
> >        wd 'set msgBox text Please set output file'
> >        wd 'set outpfl focus'
> >    else.
> >        if. fexist outpfl_Input_ do.
> >            wd 'set msgBox text Overwriting ',outpfl_Input_
> >        end.
> >        rc=. 1
> >        wd 'set msgBox text Starting at ',(":(6!:0)''),'...'
> >        wd 'set doneBtn focus'
> >        try. denormalize_base_ inpfl_Input_;outpfl_Input_
> >        catch. rc=. 0 [ wd 'set msgBox text Error' end.
> >        (6!:3) 2 [ wd 'set msgBox text Done at ',(":(6!:0)''),'...'
> >        if. rc do. wd 'set msgBox text Tabular output in
> > "',outpfl_Input_,'"' end.
> >        smoutput (6!:0)''
> >        ioFiles_close ''
> >    end.
> >    ''
> > )
> >
> > As you may be able to guess from looking at this, I want to update the
> > message area with a warning that I'm overwriting an existing file if
> that's
> > the case, and I want to put some kind of confirmation when I'm done.
> > However these parts do not do anything.  I understand that the latter
> part
> > of the code does not work whereas the initial request to "Please set
> output
> > file" does because the initial message exits, giving control back to the
> > event loop whereas the other messages don't get a chance to be displayed
> > because I'm still in the "Done" button routine.
> >
> > So, any ideas how one handles this sort of thing (showing messages while
> > continuing other processing)?  Do I need to mess with the system timer or
> > something?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Devon
> > --
> > Devon McCormick, CFA
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