Re: Lockscreen and progress bar

2024-07-26 Thread jbv via use-livecode
Basically my script takes a list of images, checks the imagedata of every image for possible white areas at the top, bottom, left or right, crops the image if necessary, resizes the image and groups it with fields created on the fly with text data from an xml file. When I simply lock the screen a

Re: Lockscreen and progress bar

2024-07-26 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
the thingy when the loop is done? >> From: use-livecode on behalf of jbv >> via use-livecode >> Date: Friday, 26 July 2024 at 4:44 PM >> To: How to use LiveCode >> Cc: j...@souslelogo.com >> Subject: Lockscreen and progress bar >> Hi list, >> I

Re: Lockscreen and progress bar

2024-07-26 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
The solution I came up with was a standalone that I could send messages to. I called it Spinner because I wanted to show a dialog that displayed a message and a spinning graphic while Livecode was processing handlers. I could send commands to show itself, hide itself, display a message and activ

Re: Lockscreen and progress bar

2024-07-26 Thread jbv via use-livecode
Actually I forgot that I had a "lock screen" at the very beginning of my script. And successive "lock screen" cumulate. Therefore the following sequence doesn't update the screen layout : lock screen .. lock screen .. unlock screen lock screen Funny how I can get stalled with very

Re: Lockscreen and progress bar

2024-07-26 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
is done? >> From: use-livecode on behalf of jbv >> via use-livecode >> Date: Friday, 26 July 2024 at 4:44 PM >> To: How to use LiveCode >> Cc: j...@souslelogo.com >> Subject: Lockscreen and progress bar >> Hi list, >> I have a main loop that do

Re: Lockscreen and progress bar

2024-07-26 Thread Terry Judd via use-livecode
...@souslelogo.com Subject: Re: Lockscreen and progress bar Hello Terry, Yes I thought of that. The problem is that "lock screen" hinders the progress bar to be updated while the loop is running. I also tried to shortly "break" the lock screen by inserting unlock screen lo

Re: Lockscreen and progress bar

2024-07-26 Thread jbv via use-livecode
and hide the thingy when the loop is done? From: use-livecode on behalf of jbv via use-livecode Date: Friday, 26 July 2024 at 4:44 PM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: j...@souslelogo.com Subject: Lockscreen and progress bar Hi list, I have a main loop that does a lot of things, like resizin

Re: Lockscreen and progress bar

2024-07-25 Thread Terry Judd via use-livecode
July 2024 at 4:44 PM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: j...@souslelogo.com Subject: Lockscreen and progress bar Hi list, I have a main loop that does a lot of things, like resizing images, precessing imagedata, creating fields and groups, etc. On top of the loop I have added "lock screen"

Lockscreen and progress bar

2024-07-25 Thread jbv via use-livecode
Hi list, I have a main loop that does a lot of things, like resizing images, precessing imagedata, creating fields and groups, etc. On top of the loop I have added "lock screen" to speed things up, and also because I don't want users to see what is going on, only the final layout when the loop is