Hey Bill, Another good idea!!
David Blocker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Downall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 11:06 PM Subject: Re: PAUSE 4 and Screen Flicker > On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 21:29:26 -0500, David M. Blocker wrote: > > >Or, as has been suggested, instead of once a second, once every 50 or > >100 etc. records, depending on the speed of the loop. That also > >removes the flicker! > > Another approach would be to determine the total rows to process before > beginning the loop, dividing it by, say, 20, to find the nearest integer to > 5% of the total, and putting up the pause only when each 5% boundary is > crossed by your row counter. You could even make it graphical, with 20 > hyphens gradually filling the PAUSE box. > > Bill > > > > > > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
