% complete xdialog

[martinwcole]

somewhere, I think it was Jim Chapman, posted a function that displayed a decreasing percent complete dialog box, to use when you are running a long script - but for the life of me, now I can't find it anywhere.

[Lenny Forziati]

RE: % complete xdialog

It's not Jim's, but V6 has a new wait dialog

-Lenny

[martinwcole]

RE: % complete xdialog

Thank's Lenny. I have been toying with that, but foir the life of me haven't figured out how to get it to work,

With code in the example, it displays for 1/10 seconds, and then disappears.

As I investigate, though, I'm not sure it will do what I want, or is practical for same.

Say you are going to do a looping script, based on the number of records in a query, and you want to feed the function the number, and then as soon as you process the first record, change a global variable, so that the bar actually represents records as they are being processed, based on the global variable.

I just got V6 yesterday, which has a built-in dialog box for this with a repeating bar, that goes back and forth, but I haven't figured out yet how to get it to work. The sample code doesn't work.

What I have been doing is just displaying a text box (on the form), and updating it - [33 of 2500] as the script processes, which is most likely more practical, and would put less overhead on the system.

[Selwyn Rabins]

RE: % complete xdialog

what sample code are you referring to?

the wait dialog feature in a5v6 is used in quite a few different places and it certainly does work.

for example, if you open the sample web app, and click the publish button, you will see a wait dialog.

you can also use action scripting to create a wait dialog.

[martinwcole]

RE: % complete xdialog

Selwyn, Since I only got V6 yesterday, I suspect it is just that I am not undestanding how to use the script.

In action scripting, if I click on "wait dialog percentage"

it has an identifier: I guess this is the name of the script, at 800-600 part of the instruction info is blanked out.

if i fill it in as stepnumber=1, steps=100, topp="", bottom=""

and save it as script "test"
when I click on it, I get an error message saying pDlg1 not found (which is the identifier in the dialog)

This may not be what I want. What I was trying to do was where a script is going to perform a looping action for each client in a query - to feed it the number of records in the query, and then have it decrement as the script loops. Currently, I just use a text box on the form.

[whanigsberg]

RE: % complete xdialog

Hi Martin,

I've had V6 longer than you but I didn't know about waitdialog until you mentioned it so thanks.

I got it to work. The sample code runs quickly and ends with
p.3.close()
so the box disappears quickly but if you run it from the interactive window and do not run the p.3.close line the box will remain. Then run the p3.close() and the box disappears.

I added a bunch of lines specifying increasing percentages (the example has only two) with sleep(1) commands between them to slow the thing down and it worked perfectly.

Bill

PS I had another fish to fry so the print preview modal stuff is off until tomorrow. I'll report then.

[Jim Chapman]

RE: % complete xdialog

Hello Martin,

I think you are referring to thread:
http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/alphaphorum/read.php3?sortby=lastreply&direction=desc&num=11&id=46614&thread=46581

Attached is the script.

Jim