Re: Closing Alert Window

No, you cannot close this alert without pressing OK.

Otherwise, you create a progress-bar, and every time you have to wait for a long running session, you start your progress-bar and that bar still closes after running.

Creating a progress bar :
Take a window, a canvas, a block with one item (the progress-bar item) and use a special visual attribute on it, which can display squares. Then you divide the time your program needs for execution through f.e. 50 and then you still have to append one more square (one more character) 50-times in your item. At the end of the run you see your bar is 100% full and after it you go back to the item, you were in, when the progress started. (After each appending of a character you have to synchronize your application with "synchronize;" )

Such progress bars are one of my favorites !

Nice evening
  Gerd Volberg
  Opitz & Partner GmbH

qenr_at_vara.nl wrote:

> While we are on this subject I also have a question on alerts!
>
> Is it possible to show an alert while a form is executing a lengthy
> query for as long as the query is executing, which dissapears when the
> query has been succesfully completed
>
> TIA
>
> On Tue, 09 Nov 1999 07:36:57 +0100, Gerd Volberg
> <Volberg_at_Opitz-Partner.DE> wrote:
>
> >Hi Brian,
> >
> >you cannot close programmatically an alert.
> >
> >You have to create a window, a canvas, an item with your message and show this
> >through a go_item. Let then run a dummy-loop for two seconds and go to the item,
> >that was active before the first go_item.
> >
> >Have fun
> > Gerd Volberg
> > Opitz&Partner GmbH
> >
> >
> >
Received on Tue Nov 09 1999 - 15:20:35 CET