How to break a loop (progress bar) with mouse

Hi David,

if noone has some new info (may be it has fundamentally changed in latest uniface kernel),
my old one reads the uniface does not process windows messages while processing proc code.

The old "trick" was to "interrupt" the loop,
return to the structure editor
and call up the continuation of the loop.

Mostly a macro statement like "userkey" was used to return to the processing.
Or using a virtual "bumper" field with macro "^next_field^previous_field"

This gave other events a chance to find their place in the input queue of the structure edittor.

SUccess, Uli

I understand the princip but I dont know "how to".

Possible example please...

Thanks

David

Hi David,

in the USERKEY trigger, combine $char=65 ("A") with call process_loopstep()

it's just pseudocode but this is the HOW:

entry setup_loop

$something_to_do$ = list_of_jobs ; like setocc "myent",1
macro "^USER_KEYA"

end ; setup_loop
 

entry process_loopstep ; processs a single step in the loop

if ($something_to_do$) ; something else to do

call process_next_step
call reduce_something_to_do()
macro "^USER_KEYA"

else

endif

end ; process_loopstep

Success, Uli

P.S: if you need a solution for your purposes, send an email to ulrichmerkel@web.de

If you can accept pressing a key instead of using the mouse,
there is a beautiful solution from awen limbourg already.

The code (among others) is included in the dITo 3GL Toolbox.
Maybe it's worth to have a look into it as well.

Success, Uli

The discussion and some ideas on this theme can be found in the forum:

Forum > Uniface Development > Uniface 9 > Interrupting Process

http://uniface.communityzero.com/uniface?go=2209990

Updated version of my solution described in the article:
In Versions 8 and 9 it does work with async + postmessage, but it is not very stable. Some of the problems are in the keyboard buffer
when using mouse and keyboard simultanously.
I think there is also a wish concerning this item.

Wolfgang