Re: Forms 4.5: Screen Update

In your code use

SYNCHRONIZE; to update the screen progress messages while the form is working.

Kenny Gump

Thorsten Baumeister wrote in message <940pn7.iso.ln_at_Porter.TBA.Home>...
>
>I just tested a procedure of a Forms Program (Ver. 4.5) which takes about
30
>min to run. So I want to inform the user, what the maschine actually does
>and developed a kind of progress bar (someone gave a howto in another
>article of this newsgroup) and put in some messages. The problem is, that
>the progress bar "jumps" form 0% in the beginning to 100% at the end and
the
>messages come up at the end of the procedure. It seems to me, that Forms is
>just too busy to update the screen. Is there any chance to force the
update?
>In Visual Basic there is an instrauction called "DoEvents()"...
>
>Thanks for your tips...
>Bye, Thorsten.
>
>
Received on Thu Jul 29 1999 - 13:51:38 CEST