That is a good idea but I don't know how to tell when Pivot has finished loading.
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:52:39 pm Christopher Brind wrote: > How about just before you start your data loading, after Pivot has loaded, > but before the user has chance to start clicking, popup a *modal dialog > *with just a progress indicator in it (and maybe a label which you could > use to show status messages). Then when your data loading has finished, > close the dialog programatically. > > Cheers, > Chris > > On 19 March 2010 04:14, Scott Lanham <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > It has been a while since I have asked a question on this list :-) > > > > When my application starts up it loads a heap of data into various > > components. > > This was fine for a while but now it is taking a long time and while the > > seconds tick away I just see a blank window. It looks like the program > > has hung which is not a good thing. > > > > I can offload the data loading into separate threads and all the > > components will > > appear quickly but I don't want the user to start trying to use those > > components until they are populated with data. > > > > Is there a way that I can have a progress indicator take over the screen > > (after the components have displayed) until my data loading threads have > > finished? > > > > Thanks heaps, > > > > Scott. >
