What tools (routines) have been used to inicate to the user a "system busy" status, (gas gauges etc.)?

Bill,

1) Msg() (including "processing" style messages and gas gauges). See the insert record MSG_EQUATES and the help for MSG.

2) Utility("CURSOR") to set an hour glass.

Cameron Purdy

Revelation Software

Well I use the hourglass cursor. Try it…

RESET_CURSOR=UTILITY('CURSOR','H')

Then when you are all done do this…

RESULT=UTILITY('CURSOR',RESET_CURSOR)

Now for something even better, I have a "gas gague".

It has text that looks like this…

Record 1,001 of 5,300, ETC 1:01, 20% Complete

and it has a colored bar that moves across based on the percentage.

its a seperate window that appears. and on the window it has a cancel button. so you can cancel the process.

if ya want i can send ya the souce code, with some samples so you can see how to do it.

Cam,

I would REALLY be nice if OI showed the status of an ongoing select like Arev does. The OIPI print engine does something similar while it outputs reports. It checks STATUSLINE of @window and paints a red gas gauge to indicate printing status. Hey, it would be AWESOME if you did the same thing with Rlist - perhaps another paramater.

Thanks

Blair

Bill,

Use of Utility("CURSOR","H") is the 'windows' way as it set the cursor to hourglass. We have seen times where processing (without our reseting of cursor) will reset the cursor to an arrow.

If you want to give the user a visual indication of process and time to go use the Message GasGauge option (see the insert msg_equates for an example of how to use this). One thing that the example does not do is mention the use of MTEXTWIDTH$ (?). Use this to make the message box bigger so you can display your text.

DSig

That would be great. e-mail is: [email protected]

That would be great. e-mail is: [email protected]

Shucks

e-mail: [email protected]

Thanks

Barry

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