[Gambas-user] Showing the Form's Gui

[richard terry]

On Tuesday 13 April 2010 20:50:26 Doriano Blengino wrote:

Thanks doriano, that worked a treat, looks much better, will try with some 
other  forms which have the same problem.


> richard terry ha scritto:
> > Often with forms one wants to start some processing after the form has
> > loaded - in my case, as my app is quite database intensive, it could
> > involve loading sometimes quite large amounts of data.
> >
> > I'd ideally like to have the form load visually, and then the data
> > loading to take place once the form is visible to the user, but if one
> > includes this loading in the usual events of _new, show() , then the
> > gui-dosn't appear until after the database loading and putting a Wait
> > command before the processing starts dosn't seem to help.
> >
> > Any idea's how to put this sort of activity into the background so the
> > gui appears instantly to the user.
> 
> I found that a good solution is to use a timer: any short delay is good
> (50 ms?). You activate the timer in the show() event and, in the timer
> event, you disable it and proceed with the lenghty operations.
> 
> Regards,
> Doriano
> 
> 
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