Unless something changed, the built in spinner uses the single threaded engine, so any processing done by the engine will halt the spinner, thereby making the spinner just the other side of worthless for anything but non-blocking operations.
What I did was I wrote a standalone that could receive messages (I used AppletaLk, but you could also use sockets) and then launched the app when the splash screen launched. I then sent text messages that would be displayed in a text field, and there was a spinner that ran. I also send show/hide messages to show and hide the window, so it looked like a progress dialog to the end user. I think I made the stack style System so it floated above everything else. I never got around to preventing the app from having an icon in the OS X dock though. There are ways to do that. Same with Windows. Bob S > On Sep 24, 2018, at 13:48 , Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On my silly phone now as in bed. Wonder if you couldn't use a splash screen > substack with a spinner? Will try this tomorrow, although am uncertain re > substacks in the HTML5 standalone. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
