Browse Lookups

Tue Jun 26 10:00:40 PDT 2018

You could probably do that ...

Record the current time into a variable before the browse starts.

In the browse processing compare the current time the original time.
When your desired time has passed 'drop all' -- you'd need a pushkey set to
get you out of the browse and continue with your 'out of time' routine.

The devil is in the details of course.

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On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 11:39 AM Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> Problem with your not tried suggestion is that the browse lookup occurs
> outside the normal processing and will not see anything done outside the
> browse that’s why the @bk option.
>
> I would love to be able to set a timer for a browse which would execute a
> sub-routine. One could then put up or take down a show pop up.  What I
> really wanted was the ability to have the browse re-execute to add or
> delete records. This would also allow for the closing of a browse if
> nothing is happening or putting up a msgbox which requires a response. No
> response in a given fine the. Record is exited. This is similar to what
> happens on some websites where one is prompted about logging out after a.
> Set time of inactivity.
>
> In my example, the programmer would be responsible for deciding if the
> record should be saved first or just cancelled thereby losing any changes
> made.
>
> Richard
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 25, 2018, at 10:28 PM, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list <
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> >
> > I did this years ago be counting the records to appear in the lookup or
> report and the dividing by the length of the scroll bar. That let me know
> how many records had to be processed before setting a 1 character field’s
> value to a graphic character for display. Ds=ds{ds when the execution value
> was met. You can even put up % complete values or display that value as a
> show.
> >
> > With a browse, you will need to set this as a subroutine to be run along
> with Any other processing. Keep in mind that once all the records are
> selected in a browse, moving through the records will cause the scroll
> routine to run again. You will need to block any key strokes that cause the
> browse to execute this sub routine.
> >
> > For Windows based computers, I have not seen the issue of a browse
> appearing to be frozen. This was an issue in the early ‘90’s.
> >
> > As for the report output, this was done for a client’s bookkeeper so
> that she could glance at a screen and have a visual idea of how far along
> the report generation was. Again, the speed of today’s machines has made
> this unnecessary.
> >
> > Richard
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Jun 25, 2018, at 3:40 PM, Walter Vaughan Jr via Filepro-list <
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I had sort of the same Idea that one could show boxes/lines
> incrementing across the bottom of the screen  like  the illusion of a
> progress bar, however I'm curious how one would trap  knowing that you are
> not locked up. How would you know in the "prc= " code that you had gotten
> to the end and need to take it down? Typically after the browse I've only
> checked for @bk keys. So one could change the show box status to
> "Completed" before checking for @bk's?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Filepro-list [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+wvaughan=
> steelerubber.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Fairlight via
> Filepro-list
> >> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 3:24 PM
> >> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> >> Subject: Re: Browse Lookups
> >>
> >> 1) Before your lookup, do a SHOW (or other NON-blocking) text display.
> >>
> >> 2) Set an increment counter to zero.
> >>
> >> 3) Every time that code block is executed, increment your counter.  If
> you want to handle it in multiples of 'x', do the calculation to determine
> if you're on that multiple (of, say...100 or 1000).
> >>
> >> 4) Every time it's time to print the message, update it with the
> incremented counter.
> >>
> >> 5) After the lookup is complete, take down or otherwise paint over your
> text display.
> >>
> >> 6) Profit.
> >>
> >> m->
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 03:06:24PM -0400, Scott Walker via Filepro-list
> thus spoke:
> >>> I'm doing a browse lookup.
> >>>
> >>> There is some code executed for each record which causes many of them
> >>> to be dropped  (that is good).
> >>>
> >>> But when a lot of records are dropped (like thousands) I want to flash
> >>> a message telling the customer that the system is doing some searching
> >>> and is not "frozen".  When the system is not actively searching for
> >>> records to include, (like when it's filled up the entire browse lookup
> >>> window) I want this message to be cleared or when it's gotten to the
> >>> end of the file it is searching through.
> >>>
> >>> Has anyone figure out how to do this?
> >>>
> >>> I'm having trouble figuring out where the right place to put the code
> >
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