[Gambas-user] Showing the Form's Gui

[Fabien Bodard]

2010/4/13 Doriano Blengino <doriano.blengino at ...1909...>:
> Fabien Bodard ha scritto:
>> just remember to put a flag to say when the data are loaded !
>>
> What would be the reason for this flag?
if the form is showed and the data not accessible ?

>
>> 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
>>>>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval
> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs
> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance.
> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta.
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev
> _______________________________________________
> Gambas-user mailing list
> Gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
>