Razzak, Nice idea! I had a different layout in my head, but this one gave me a spark of something much better. I will email you privately to set up a demo time. Thanks
-- Frank -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of A. Razzak Memon Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 11:05 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: On Screen Count Down Timer 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. https://www.join.me/RazzakMemon Very Best R:egards, Razzak www.rbase.com www.facebook.com/rbase -- 31 years of continuous innovation! 16 Years of R:BASE Technologies, Inc. making R:BASE what it is today! -- --- RBASE-L =======================3D=======================3 D= TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: Send a plain text email to [email protected] (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) =======================3D=======================3 D= TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO =======================3D=======================3 D= TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE =======================3D=======================3 D= TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n (where n is the number of days). In the message body, place any text to search for. =======================3D=======================3 D=
