Hi All I don't agree that something is occurring which has hit issues, as the blue circle is resolved with a wiggle of the mouse.
The form in question simply fires a timer every five minutes and it's when this code finishes that the blue circle is left spinning. I can wait 1 second or 1 minute if I don't touch anything the blue circle continues to spin, but nudge the mouse and it's gone. Surely if something was occurring a wiggle wouldn't stop it. So my take on it is VFP has done what it wants, finished and has either failed to acknowledge to Windows it's no longer busy or Windows has failed to spot it, whichever way around that process works. I am thinking just to stick a KEYBOARD DOWN ARROW in or something. Thanks Chris. -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Wendt Sent: 29 September 2015 16:29 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: VFP & Blue Circles Agree - even though NO Operator actions are occurring - there is still plenty that Could be occurring. I've seen the issue - even with wording of "Application Not Responding" appearing at the top of one of our apps here as its running. Although - at the time - its doing data processing - or data retrieval from MS SQL. So, maybe it's one of these "behind the scenes" events that are occurring - like you mentioned below - but, its one that's running into a little bit of issues and taking TOO Long to run - and Thus the Blue Circles... -K- -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VFP & Blue Circles On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Kurt Wendt <[email protected]> wrote: > According to his original message - he said NOTHING is occurring! Maybe its > just sitting on a screen waiting for Input... > Well, if it's just "sitting on a screen waiting for input" then there are lots of things going on: VFP runs its own event loop, it's checking for keypresses, checking for any timers running, it has a READ EVENTS loop running on top of that. It blinks the cursor, it repaints the screen. If any tables are open, they are cached. It checks to see if its ON ERROR or ON KEY handlers should be triggered, it checks for menu events. It checks for Window messages, which might be telling it to refresh, resize or shutdown. Finally, it yields its control to the OS. If any of these events get "stuck," Windows may interpret that as a "busy" app, hence the spinner, or even an "Application Not Responding" issue. So, maybe no operator actions are occurring, but LOTS of stuff is going on. [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
