[Gambas-user] Showing the Form's Gui

[Fabien Bodard]

just remember to put a flag to say when the data are loaded !

2010/4/13 richard terry <rterry at ...1946...>:
> 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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