My original post was totally unclear. Let me be more precise....
When our app tries to connect to the server (located on another
machine) there is a possibility that the server is not online at that
moment, or may be in the process of coming online. We want our app to
'look for the server' for a few seconds before giving up.
If the sever is available, there is a instant connection with
db.connect.
However, if the server it NOT available, the db.connect method
appears to have it's own timeout - approx 3 seconds. During that 3
seconds the db.connect seems to lock out the GUI.
This may be more a function of RB than the REALSQLServer/plug-in. We
were looking for clarification on that.
We have everything in classes: i.e. we have a MainControllerClass,
which has the main window (wMainClass) as a property... so in the
open event of our application we instantiate an instance of the
MainController class
Main = new MainControllerClass
Main.Init()
in the init method it prepares and opens the main window. Maybe it
has something to do with that.
Another interesting thing came to light just now which may also have
something to do with it.
If you create a new project, set it's main window to nothing and
instantiate instances, it seems to behave a bit weird.
In the open event of the app you do the following:
dim w as new wMainClass
w.Visible = true
MsgBox "Hello"
No matter what we do (w.visible, w.Refresh etc), the messagebox
appears first.
Maybe not enough coffee yet.
Any thoughts?
- Jay
On Aug 14, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Roger Clary wrote:
On Aug 14, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Jay Wooten wrote:
It appears that when you issue a REALSQLServer connect call, it
locks out the GUI for 2-3 seconds.
i.e. when our app is connecting to the server, we display a
progress wheel to let the user know it is connecting.
However, when we issue db.connect the GUI Freezes for 2-3 seconds.
So we tried putting the db.connect in a thread - same thing.. GUI
locks up for 2-3 seconds.
We added a timer to the window to 'manually' refresh the progress
wheel/window and that didn't help either.
Not seeing that behavior. Is the DB on the same machine as the app?
If not, where is it?
Roger M. Clary
Class One Software
http://www.classonesoftware.com
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