BUSYBOX()

[Richard Kreiss]

Server - Windows Server 2012
Work Station- Widow 10 Enterprise
Network - Gigabit



I have been experimenting with this function and have noted the following results with a browse lookup.


1.      Suggest that one does not place busybox in prc sub routine as it executes each time the prc runs.  Also after the browse is displayed and one scrolls, the busybox reappears.

2.      Better place to place busybox is just prior to the browse executing.  It will display a message or your message where you want the box to appear. Once the records have been selected, the busybox will disappear.  Scrolling will not make the busybox reappear as above.

3.      You can use color within busybox busybox() "\b5 Your Message \a-". I would suggest using a color to bring the users eye to the message.

4.      On very fast systems, one might not see the busybox().  I test this against a file with just over 27 million records and selected it on those records with a specific item number and having the invoice # field ne to empty.  This operation took 2.66 seconds before the browse appeared selecting 2408 records.

I have not tested this directly on my server. On a *nix system I would expected this would even be faster.

As for using busybox elsewhere, I can't say as I have to experimented with it yet.  It is working as detailed by filePro, however, it would have been nice to show some programming examples which would have saved a lot of back and forth.  I still would like to see some program examples for busybox not used with a browse lookup.  i.e. with sortarray and reading in records to an array.  When I program these types of actions, it can appear the program has stopped.  In effect it has stopped as it is doing something behind the scenes, sauch as loading an array with 300 or so names or sorting an array with 300 or more elements with a sort size of 40 characters.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting


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