I was under the impression that if you issued a CLS after the
PAUSE 4 then that would clear it up... Maybe I'm thinking of
something else.
Jim L.
--- Bob Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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