It works VERY well as long as the length of the first message is the BIGGER
than any that follow.
I've done this outside of a form and it looks good. Probably slows the thing
down a bit but at least you know it's doing something.
Should be possible in an EEP to bung a pause box on top of the form...
while ...
do stuff ...
set var vMessage text = ('your message' & .vYourVar)
pause 3 using .vMessage
endwhile
Regards, Alastair.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Limburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: Another novice form question
> Bob,
>
> Not sure about the form... If you are using RBWin65
> then could you use a PAUSE 3 and then a PAUSE 4 to
> write over the existing PAUSE 3... Razzak had nifty
> little routine for something like this. I'm not sure
> how well it works for constant updates like you are
> talking about though, haven't put that much processing
> on this kind of user feedback..
>
> Hope this helps
> Jim Limburg
>
> --- Bob Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I want to display a "count down" counter
> > on a form while the app is processing a
> > somewhat large data set. I have a push button
> > on the form that executes the program and
> > I want the form to display something like :
> > "Processing record# 20 of 10000"
> >
> > This app may take 1-2 minutes to completely
> > execute and this is feed back to the user.
> >
> > I have tried the SCREEN RESTORE, WRITE
> > and RECALC commands, but cannot get the
> > form to show updated variables until the procedure
> > has finished. (It is then a moot point of course!)
> > I do not want to use the FEEDBACK option as
> > I would like more control over what and
> > how the counter is displayed.
> >
> > You all have been very helpful and I appreciate
> > the assistance. Again, simply how do you
> > get a variable to redisplay at will on a form
> > while you are performing a WHILE LOOP or
> > DECLARE CURSOR ?
> >
> > Thanks.
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