Re: FORMS30: Trying to get message on message

From: Martin Farber <farber_at_nynexst.com>
Date: 7 Dec 1994 23:06:54 GMT
Message-ID: <3c5f6e$2rd_at_news.nynexst.com>


In article 35o_at_usenet.rpi.edu, hoffma_at_rpi.edu (Adam Hoffman) writes:
>Hello,
>I am executing a key-nxtblk trigger which does the following:
>
>begin
>next_block;
>clear_block;
>get_sum; <-----this is a procedure to select x rows into the block
>first_record;
>end;
>
>I am trying to get the message "Working..." to appear on the message line
>while the get_sum procedure is executing. I have tried putting the
>command message('Working...') in all spots of this trigger and in
>the procedure but it does'nt seem to work. Any suggestions would be
>greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Try SYNCHRONIZE after the message statement to force the buffer to flush.

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