[Gambas-user] How to use MessageView when closing a form?

[Jussi Lahtinen]

There is the Task keyword.
http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb/task

Jussi

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 2:12 AM Bruce Steers <bsteers4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I mean something like how Shell/Exec can use Wait or not. Something like
> that but for any Sub/Function/etc like Try can prefix anything (almost)
>
> A function prefix (Do sounds good, Run would make sense) that would run
> the function/Sub asynchronous, so the event handler would just trigger the
> comnand in another process/timer and exit.
>
> That's how I exit my event handlers quickly. The event handler triggers a
> timer and ends, the timer runs the commands.
>
> Hope that makes sense.
> Wishing well
> BruceS
>
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2021, 23:35 Benoît Minisini, <g4mba5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Le 26/08/2021 à 22:25, Bruce Steers a écrit :
>> > I vision some awesome new command like
>> > Trigger
>> > Or
>> > Call
>> > For example
>> >
>> > Public Sub Form_MouseUp()
>> >
>> >    Call MyFuncion()
>> >
>> > End
>> >
>> > Function is run freely and event handler exits.
>> >
>> > I've had many a condition where I wanted out of the event handler, it
>> > usually involves event handler just starting a Timer that runs the
>> commands.
>> >
>> > Something built it would be cool 😎
>> >
>> > Respects
>> > BruceS
>> >
>>
>> I don't know what you are actually in mind.
>>
>> I just can tell that when I need to run some code later, I use a timer
>> object and its Trigger() method. That way the code is run at the next
>> event loop.
>>
>> But it requires a lot of lines of codes, so maybe we can imagine
>> something like:
>>
>>    Do SomeFunction() Next
>>
>> that would run 'SomeFunction' at the next event loop.
>>
>> The syntax is not terrible, but introducing new keywords in the language
>> may break existing code.
>>
>> Another point: as there is no closure in Gambas, the function cannot
>> take any arguments.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Benoît Minisini
>>
>
>>
>>
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