Or make it time-based rather than number-of-times-through-a-loop
put the millisecs into t1
repeat ....
if the millisecs-t1 > somenumberofmillisecs then
set the cursor to busy
put the millisecs into t1
end if
..... do something useful
end repeat
-- Alex.
On 18/02/2014 00:27, Phil Davis wrote:
You may have done this already, but experiment with other cursor
update intervals - like every 50th or 100th time. You may be shocked!
Phil
On 2/17/14, 4:21 PM, Ray wrote:
Ah Haa!! You've shaved another 3 and a half seconds off what started
out as 40 seconds, got cut down to 5, and is now just 1.5 seconds.
Very good!
Phil - many thanks for your help on this. I'll probably use these
ideas on many handlers to come.
Ray
On 2/17/2014 7:06 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
put 0 into x
repeat
add 1 to x
if x mod 10 = 0 then set cursor to busy
....
end repeat
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