On Apr 25, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Peter K. Stys wrote:
> All we want is:
>
> for j = 1 to 1000000
> myWindow.myStaticText.text = str(j)
> next
>
> for myStaticText to actually display the progress of the loop as it's
> running (distilled example of course).
I'm confused: what's wrong with just adding a
myWindow.myStaticText.refresh after the above assignment line?
That works fine for me, though doing it every iteration slows down
the code considerably. I usually do something like this in my programs:
dim j as integer
for j = 1 to 1000000
staticText1.text = str(j)
if j mod 1000 = 0 then staticText1.refresh
next j
This works great. Depending on the length of the loop and the
frequency of feedback I want I adjust the "1000" number to be about
ten percent or so of the total.
I use this with ProgressBars as well, not just StaticTexts. If I have
a bunch of objects to update, I simply call an update method that
refreshes them all.
Marc Zeedar
Publisher, REALbasic Developer magazine
www.rbdeveloper.com
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