Ricardo:
Could you post a example of your open forms method? I'm very interested on
it. It sound like something I have searching for a long time.
Gracias
Jorge
2010/4/13 Ricardo Díaz Martín <oceanosoftlapa...@gmail.com>
> If It can help to someone, this is I always do:
>
> When I'm going to open a form, I always call my own OpenForm(FormName as
> String, Parameters as String) sub. This sub is not inside the form I'm
> going
> to open. It's a public sub that's is inside a utilities module.
>
> OpenForm() sub create new object with the form (f.e. FRMMain) and put its
> reference inside a public collection called OpenedForms. Before to show
> form
> to the user, I show other form with a progress bar and a label showing
> "Loading..." and I'm going executing SQL, show/hid controls, etc... with no
> show anything. If there are a fixed steps to data load, I updated progress
> bar and when load process finish I show the form.
>
> I use this in all my apps (since lot of years when I never eared about
> gambas and I was programing in VB, Access, Java, etc...) and for me is the
> best option. For sure there is a lot of ways to do this.
>
> Regards,
> Ricardo Díaz
>
>
>
> 2010/4/13 Doriano Blengino <doriano.bleng...@fastwebnet.it>
>
> > Fabien Bodard ha scritto:
> > > 2010/4/13 Doriano Blengino <doriano.bleng...@fastwebnet.it>:
> > >
> > >> Fabien Bodard ha scritto:
> > >>
> > >>> just remember to put a flag to say when the data are loaded !
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >> What would be the reason for this flag?
> > >>
> > > if the form is showed and the data not accessible ?
> > >
> > Really, there could be a problem if the user clicks a button 50 ms after
> > the button (and the whole form) is visible. A remote possibility, and
> > application-dependent. But I know users enough to imagine that someone
> > could do it... :-)
> >
> > Reducing the interval of the one-shot timer can help, but does not solve
> > (interval=0 could?). The better way is to disable actions the user could
> > do with invalid data (application dependent: who says that the form is
> > intended to receive clicks?), and perhaps add a nice label stating
> > "Loading data, please wait..." and so on.
> >
> > Anyway, the flag is the worse solution. Supposing you use a flag, and
> > the user clicks or types too fast, what would you do? A
> > Message.Info("You clicked too fast. Go to have a coffee and come back
> > later.")? :-) Better to disable some controls, so the user is informed
> > before; in addition, controls are already "global variables" which carry
> > informations with them. Well, this is my opinion - I hate to duplicate
> > informations around, but someone else on this list, time ago, said
> > "never use the GUI to store information". The problem with global (or
> > class) variables is that you can forget them more easily than some
> > property of a visible control.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Doriano
> >
> >
> >
> >
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