Hi Alastair,
I have run into this before. Once a pause is up on the screen
it does not want to change size. So if you start with a small
one like you have then it will not display the longer messages.
To get it to display correctly make the changes as I made
below and display a long message first.
I reported this feature to RBTI a very long time ago, when
the PAUSE 4 command first came out.
Best regards,
Mike Young
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:23:36 -0000, Alastair Burr wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Can anyone explain this behaviour in RBW 6.5++p2, please, or point out
my
>error(s)?
>
>The set of commands below can be copied and pasted as is - no database is
>needed - and it takes less than 35 seconds to run(!):
>
>
>CLS
>CLEAR ALL VAR
>SET VAR vMessage TEXT = NULL
>SET VAR vCount INTEGER = 0
>
SET VAR vMessage = 'We are commencing the count down!'
--SET VAR vMessage = 'Count:'
>PAUSE 3 USING .vMessage AT 15 10
>PAUSE FOR 1
>WRITE 'Starting first sequence:' AT 2,10
>WHILE vCount < 10 THEN
> SET VAR vMessage = ('Count:' & (CTXT(.vCount)))
> PAUSE 4 USING .vMessage CAPTION 'Please wait...'
> WRITE .vMessage AT 3,10
> SET VAR vCount = (.vCount + 1)
> PAUSE FOR 1
>ENDWHILE
>
>SET VAR vMessage = 'This is just a long message for fun'
>PAUSE 3 USING .vMessage AT 15 10
>PAUSE FOR 1
>WRITE 'Starting second sequence:' AT 4,10
>WHILE vCount < 20 THEN
> SET VAR vMessage = ('Count:' & (CTXT(.vCount)))
> PAUSE 4 USING .vMessage CAPTION 'Please wait...'
> WRITE .vMessage AT 5,10
> SET VAR vCount = (.vCount + 1)
> PAUSE FOR 1
>ENDWHILE
>
>SET VAR vMessage = 'Count:'
>PAUSE 3 USING .vMessage AT 15 10
>PAUSE FOR 1
>WRITE 'Starting third sequence:' AT 6,10
>WHILE vCount < 30 THEN
> SET VAR vMessage = ('Count:' & (CTXT(.vCount)))
> PAUSE 3 USING .vMessage CAPTION 'Please wait...' AT 15 10
> WRITE .vMessage AT 7,10
> SET VAR vCount = (.vCount + 1)
> PAUSE FOR 1
>ENDWHILE
>
>RETURN
>
>
>Assuming that you get what I get (no count on the first sequence of pauses)
>I have noticed this a few times now with pause messages not updating
>properly - I'm not convinced that it only happens with "pause 4" either,
>although this test doesn't confirm that.
>
>Regards,
>Alastair.
>
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>St. Albans, UK.
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