Just as a tidbit to consider when using CALL FROM and CALL WORKER. Make
sure you give the form time to spawn and get running before you engage CALL
WORKER.
In my case I have a new process start up with a global window that
handled feedback from my workers. I pass the window ID of the feedback window
in an object to the worker to tell it who to message back to. You need to give
the window time to open and be ready before you CALL WORKER with work.
Especially if the worker sends a startup message to the window. Otherwise the
worker cannot send messages to the form.
I tried this with the Application window and loaded a form into the
window. This does not work since you need to have a window reference for the
CALL FORM to send the message back to. The application window does not have a
Window ID to reference. CALL FORM required a Window Ref ID to talk to.
http://doc.4d.com/4Dv16/4D/16.3/CALL-FORM.301-3651181.en.html
<http://doc.4d.com/4Dv16/4D/16.3/CALL-FORM.301-3651181.en.html>
I have still not figured out how to have a server side worker send a
message to a client side window. Maybe that is a talk for later.
I can see how this could be used to create a CRON type of operation
with a worker that watches and spawns other workers when time events occur. I
also see there are a lot of functions that cannot be preemptively
multithreaded.
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> On Dec 18, 2017, at 11:00 PM, Eric Naujock via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks for that tip. I played a bit with that and I now have a basic form
> running in the Application window. Since I have started refactoring my code
> to start using CALL FORM and CALL WORKER. This gives a very interesting
> option.
>
> I will continue to play with this to see if I can get some more fun with
> this.
>
> I do have another question about Server to Client communication using the
> CALL WORKER and CALL FROM methods. Should I start another thread or are there
> more notes about this idea. I have a basic setup running client side and I
> have done a bit of looking at processes but have not pieced it together. If
> somebody has already done this then it would help clarify options.
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>> On Dec 18, 2017, at 9:55 PM, Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech
>> <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> if you hide the application splash window then you should open a dialog
>> window by code.
>>
>> if you don't open a dialog window by code, the user might get the impression
>> that the startup procedure is taking long, just as you describe.
>>
>> the splash window is running in the application process, so you can simply
>> call DIALOG (without opening a new window) in your on startup code if you
>> want to display a different form.
>>
>> after that, you can use CALL FORM or CALL WORKER to update it as a status
>> window.
>>
>> see also:
>>
>> http://kb.4d.com/assetid=75247
>>
>> 2017/12/19 10:56、Eric Naujock <e...@mac-cafe.com<mailto:e...@mac-cafe.com>>
>> のメール：
>> Yes I read the page you mentioned before I posted, But that page assumes
>> that we are using the menu bars in the menu items. I am using the menu
>> commands to build and present my menu bars. There does not seem to be a
>> command line option to accomplish that. There is no mention of this in the
>> manual. I also read though the other page about hading the Application
>> window. This is what I had turned off before. Except that this sometimes
>> confuses my users as they start the program and wait for it to start since
>> without the Application window it runs and they get the menu bar.
>> If I could assign a image to the Application menu that this could be a neat
>> way to create a status page by generating a SVG image and the pushing it to
>> the Application window.
>>
>>
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