Dave, the "Application.ProcessMessages" worked like a champ! Thanks loads!
--- In [email protected], David Smith <djsmith_1...@...> wrote: > > Find a few convenient places in your code to make a call to > Application.ProcessMessages. Also, make the cursor go to a SQLWait cursor so > they know that your program is still processing. You could also provide a > gauge in the status bar indicating how much processing is remaining. > > Dave > > --- On Sat, 2/27/10, c80840 <c80...@...> wrote: > > From: c80840 <c80...@...> > Subject: [delphi-en] Refreshing > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 6:04 PM > > > > > > > > Â > > > > > > > > > > I use BDS2006, and I hope someone can give me advise. My program is > set to having a main form, then using MODAL, I open another form where I > process a database. While processing through a database, if I go to say for > instance MS Word, and go back to my program that is still processing the > database, the program screen won't refresh until the program completes > processing the DB. > > > > So if it is a real big DB, the user might think the program has hung, and > force a termination through the Task Manager, when it really isn't necessary. > I have tried to refresh the form after each record is processed, but that > didn't help. > > > > Can any your brilliant folks here tell me how to fix this issue? I want to > be able to allow the user to go to another program, and come back and they > can see things working. On the bottom of the screen, while it is processing, > the status bar displays the record number that it is on. > > > > Thanks... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
