Thank you to all who responded!
I found two ways of achieving my desired results.
1) Use the PAUSE 3 and PAUSE 4 statements according
to earlier messages.
2) If you display a STATUS bar in your form you can use
the WRITE 'text message' AT BAR YELLOW ON BLACK
This function also worked very well and does not leave any
pop up windows open to close after the processing. (A very
small draw back to the PAUSE statement is it appears that
you have to close the message box manually when finished.)
It also allows from some color options that can is nice.
Depending on the project and app, I can see myself using both
the above. Thanks again to all that responded!
-----Original Message-----
From: Alastair Burr [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 1:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Another novice form question
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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