Re: Reporting progress

2019-03-21 Thread Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech
Thanks for all the suggestions. The problem with the Progress component is that either it displays only one line (the current subtask) or it clutters the screen with lots of irrelevant (for my purposes) progress bars. Each step in the process will take a minimal amount of time, but as what

Re: Reporting progress

2019-03-20 Thread Chip Scheide via 4D_Tech
Jeremy, Progress Component it would look something like this: Open progress window("Contacting Server...") contact_server-Method Update Progress window("Signing in...") signin_method Update Progress window("Getting obligations...") get_obligation_method Update Progress window("Submitting

Re: Reporting progress

2019-03-20 Thread Herr Alexander Heintz via 4D_Tech
ONLY sensible solution: Just use the 4D Progress Component! Everything else is just reinventing the wheel for nothing, an utter waste of time. Pass the process id variable to whatever process needs to update it and Bob's your uncle. My 2 ct. (Euro cent that is, roughly 2.3 US cent) > Am

Re: Reporting progress

2019-03-20 Thread Peter Mew via 4D_Tech
Hi Jeremy I start a new process <>NewProcess and open a window with a text variable, vProgress, on a form. When ever I want a new message displayed I Do <>Message:= "Hello World"+char(13) Call Process(New Process) Then in the form method for New Process I do IF(Form event = on outside call)

Re: Reporting progress

2019-03-20 Thread Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech
v17. I’d not looked at the component; my memory is that it provides a progress bar, which isn’t really what I want (I have my own component to do that). I just want line-by-line text feedback, with each line remaining visible as new lines are added. Jeremy > On 20 Mar 2019, at 10:06, Charles

Re: Reporting progress

2019-03-20 Thread Charles Miller via 4D_Tech
What version. Can you use progress component On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 6:00 AM Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > I’d like to give feedback about the process of a multi-step task - > something like > > Contacting server… > Signing in… > Getting obligations… > Submitting

Reporting progress

2019-03-20 Thread Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech
I’d like to give feedback about the process of a multi-step task - something like Contacting server… Signing in… Getting obligations… Submitting data… Done. appearing one line at a time. Updating a text field in my process’s own window won’t work, as I don’t leave the process and no form