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Robert Lewy - 26 Jul 2008 05:08 GMT

I am trying to display an information form whilst other processing continues.
I cannot use WAIT as it won't accept a text variable (required) or
MESSAGEBOX as it always waits for user acknowledgement. I want to display a
window which has text coming from a variable but continue processing without
any intervention by user.
Any help would be appreciated.

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Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) - 26 Jul 2008 05:31 GMT

> I am trying to display an information form whilst other processing continues.
> I cannot use WAIT as it won't accept a text variable (required) or

How did you call WAIT?

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Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) - 26 Jul 2008 10:49 GMT

>> continues. I cannot use WAIT as it won't accept a text variable
>> (required) or
>
> How did you call WAIT?

xx = 0
do while xx<10
    yy = str(xx)
    wait window yy nowait
    xx = xx+1
enddo

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Stefan Wuebbe - 26 Jul 2008 05:55 GMT

>I am trying to display an information form whilst other processing continues.
> I cannot use WAIT as it won't accept a text variable (required) or
> MESSAGEBOX as it always waits for user acknowledgement. I want to display a
> window which has text coming from a variable but continue processing without
> any intervention by user.
> Any help would be appreciated.

You can Show() a form, then run your code, and then Release()
(or Hide) the form. (I did not understand your Wait Window remark.)

<example>
LOCAL loSplashScreen as Form, i
loSplashScreen = CREATEOBJECT('Form') && your class
loSplashScreen.AutoCenter = .T.
loSplashScreen.Show()
FOR i = 1 TO 10000
WAIT (TRANSFORM(i)) WINDOW NOWAIT NOCLEAR
ENDFOR
loSplashScreen.Release()
</example>

hth
-Stefan

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Dan Freeman - 28 Jul 2008 16:50 GMT

Just to clear up an obvious misunderstanding...

WAIT WINDOW will *absolutely* accept a text variable.

lcMessage = "Doing something. Please wait."
WAIT WINDOW lcMessage NOWAIT

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> I am trying to display an information form whilst other processing
> continues. I cannot use WAIT as it won't accept a text variable
> (required) or MESSAGEBOX as it always waits for user acknowledgement.
> I want to display a window which has text coming from a variable but
> continue processing without any intervention by user.
> Any help would be appreciated.

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swdev2 - 29 Jul 2008 09:27 GMT

Check out the progress bar samples on your computer or the installation CD.
You can use the same concept presented there to present changing text
variables to the user, in a form output.

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> I am trying to display an information form whilst other processing continues.
> I cannot use WAIT as it won't accept a text variable (required) or
> MESSAGEBOX as it always waits for user acknowledgement. I want to display a
> window which has text coming from a variable but continue processing without
> any intervention by user.
> Any help would be appreciated.

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