[Gambas-user] Passive wait ???

[Benoît Minisini]

> > I'm trying to implement soft of a "status bar" on my application.
> > When certain actions are performed, I want to display the successful
> > results on this status bar, rather than a pop-up message. This is an
> > attempt to reduce the number of clicks necessary (get annoying after a
> > while).
> >
> > So I thought, to accomplish this, I can add a text label a the bottom
> > of my form, and use it as a status bar.
> > When a task is performed succesffully, I want it to display the
> > message for 5 seconds and then clear the status bar, so I thogh
> >
> > tlStatusLbl.text = "Task succeeded"
> > wait 5
> 
> Why waiting for five seconds? Just use WAIT.
> 

Sorry: ...and starts a timer to clear the status five seconds later.

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Benoît Minisini