At 02:30 PM 9/16/2014, Frank Taylor wrote:
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
PROPERY running all the time.
Any ideas/suggestions ?
Frank,
If your goal is to provide up-to-date information (inbound shipments)
with scrolling colored dynamic list view, you could easily achieve
that goal by defining a cool form based on a view that will be self
refreshed using the PROPERTY TABLE <FORMTABLEVIEWNAME> 'CLOSE' and
PROPERTY TABLE <FORMTABLEVIEWNAME> 'OPEN' commands.
In reference to creating "pages", you can easily define form pages
using the PROPERTY TABLE <FORMTABLENAME> 'JUMP nn' command.
Finally, all these features/techniques can be totally automated
in a form using the PROPERTY RBASE_FORM TIMERINTERVAL 'nnn' command.
Let me now if you need a sample application to illustrate the use
of such features.
My time and schedule permitting, I will send you an invitation to
show you the application that accomplishes similar task.
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Very Best R:egards,
Razzak
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