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I don't know if it's my imagination or not but the wait
from double clicking the icon that launches R:Base until my pause 3 statement
which is, more or less, the first thing in my app seems to have got longer
recently (and I'm not _aware_ of anything else having changed to affect
it)
Perhaps a couple of entries in the RBEngine.CFG
could be used as a "user message" on start-up:
STARTMES ON/OFF
STARTTXT Loading
R:Base
Regards,
Alastair.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 5:26
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Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Runaway R:Base
processes / R:Base won't start.
This is sort of related.
I have put in a request to RDCC for runtime and the compiler to have
SOMETHING, maybe a user defined message to appear on the screen while R:base
loads. Something like "Loading inventory program...please wait", or
"Welcome to blah,blah,blah"). This would prevent the users from thinking
nothing is hapening. The problem (and I got caught up in it for awhile)
is that when you click on the icon no hourglass appears and you think nothing
is happeningand you tend to click it again, further slowing the process.
Yes, it seems minor, but when you have many users accessing these icons
from a network the load time is even slower. It's just a cosmetic
enhancement, but if others would like to see this PLEASE submit a request to
RDCC.
Bob C.
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Sounds like my wife is working there.
She double clicks
"everything". Further if she doesn't see activity within the
first
1.5 picoseconds (for the uninitiated, at the speed of light, light
travels
just 9 inches each picosecond), she is likely to doubleclick
again...
So task bar items get launched twice, and more than one of
program is
ill-behaved when a quick double click tries to start virtually
simultaneous
launches. Example is IE sometimes completely hangs on
her XP box when started
this way. I have threatened bodily harm, but
she just laughs at me....
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To: "RBG7-L Mailing List"
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Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:22
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Subject: [RBG7-L] - Runaway R:Base processes / R:Base won't
start.
> At a large installation, I have the following problem
on a small number of
> machines:
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> Sometimes R:Base
appears not to start. You can click on the icon several
> times,
but the application's menu does not appear on the screen.
Checking
the
> process list in Task Manager, I am able to see a
number of RBG7 processes
> running (more than I tried to start, so I
think that someone had run some
> before I got to the
machine).
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> One of the processes is racking up time on the CPU.
When I kill that one,
the
> menus for the others appear on the
desktop.
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> Has anyone experienced anything like this, with
R:Base sessions running in
Task
> Manager but not appearing on the
desktop?
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> My icon runs R:Base and uses a DAT command file to
open the database and load
> the form which has the main menu.
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> Larry
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