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
Try wait 1 millisecond with messages then lock screen again. But I have run
into this issue where even when I pause execution by some means the screen does
not update. I find the whole process unreliable, and by the way when you lock
the screen then do something with a datagrid, the screen gets
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
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
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> On 26 Jul 2024, at 08:13, jbv via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> 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
> un
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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
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
lock screen
within the loop, hoping that it would update the display, but
to no av
How about taking a screengrab just before you run the loop, place that over the
top of the content that changes, layer the progress thingy over that and then
delete the screengrab and hide the thingy when the loop is done?
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Date: Friday, 26
