Frank, My thought would be that they would be sorted by arrival time. Maybe include the "gate number" (I'm assuming deliveries would go to specific locations)for the vehicle. Arrived vehicles have their status changed so they are no longer "arriving". Refresh the screen every 1 minute.
Jan -----Original Message----- From: Frank Taylor <[email protected]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:30:40 +0000 Subject: [RBASE-L] - On Screen Count Down Timer I have a large display form that is going up to a large screen that will act like your typical Airline Arrival / Departure board you see at the airports, but for freight trucks. Some days we may have hundreds of inbound shipments, which requires me to have the screen display multiple screen Pages. I want to be able to put a countdown timer on the screen that says, “Page 2 will display in XXX seconds” , or if there is only one screen, “This page will refresh in XXX seconds” Not sure if this is a “wouldn’t it be nice item”, but I would like to be able to put an object on the form where I give it a start time, say 30 seconds and it counts down in the form background, then match up the form timer to trigger at about the same time to refresh the page I am not keen on running a loop and refreshing the label constantly, this is going to be running a lot without interruption, thus I fear memory leaks or issues abound from loops running all the time. Any ideas/suggestions ? Frank Taylor – Director of Information Technology F.J. O'Hara & Sons, Inc - Araho Transfer Inc. Boston, MA - Rockland, ME - Miami, FL Direct Dial - 617-790-3093 Email: [email protected]
