rreport on Windows

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Easton" <bruce at stn.com>
To: "filepro list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:40 AM
Subject: RE: rreport on Windows


> Kenneth Brody wrote Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:09 AM:
>> Quoting Bruce Easton (Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:47:48 -0400):
>> 
>> > I have an output process that creates records in another file for
>> > several hundred records (Windows 2000 server w/filepro 5.08).
>> 
>> filePro "5.08"?  I assume you mean "5.0.08"?
> 
> Yes.  But actually I was mistaken.  Their filePro is actually 
> 5.0.14.
> 
>> 
>> > When the process starts, the whole screen goes blank and never
>> > shows the count-down of selected records (right now all but one
>> > record in the file).  I don't get anything back on the screen
>> > until the process is finished.  Is this normal behavior for
>> > Windows filePro?
>> 
>> No.
>> 
> 
> Any ideas on what causes this?  I run the request from their 
> development menu which has /fp/rreport - -u -j -pq 
> and the config editor shows the env:
> 
> pfprt C:\testing.txt
> pfprtc nocodes
> pfver ON
> pfpto 20
> pfnet ON
> pffiles 300
> pftoksize 300000
> pfformtoksize 300000
> 
> The icon that starts up filepro has command his buffer size 50 
> and number of buffers 4 and layout window height of 25 lines 
> (someone wrote and asked about this).
> 
> There is no output to screen from the process.  I do close 
> records I'm writing to at the end of each record processed 
> in the current file.
> 
> Someone said that if this process is going fast enough and 
> nothing ever slows it down, that I may never see a 
> record count down and nothing can be done. 
> 
> Is that true?  (The screen was blank for a good 3-4 minutes.)
> 
> Bruce
> 
> Bruce Easton
> STN, Inc.

It definitely only updates the display once per second or once per <some unit of time> or once per <something>, not every record, we can all see that plainly. So several hundred records.. I have definitely seen the record counter (in all phases, scanning/selecting/reading/processing) jump by several hundres of records at a time while processing thousands of records on a fast server with simple processing.

So I could imagine your situation.
I would have expected at least the normal rreport screen with the header/title and the bottom of screen prompts though, not a totally blank screen.

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