Lock screen and animated gif

[Bob Sneidar]

A while back I created a Spinner standalone that listened for messages via sockets. It worked quite well actually. I sent it commands to show and hide itself, and start and stop the spinner, as well as text to display. Since it was a standalone app it was not subject to the inline message queue. 

Bob S


> On Dec 20, 2022, at 10:35 , jbv via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the offer, but actually things are a bit more complicated
> and include several steps :
> 1- the user selects different options on a modal stack
> 2- the user clicks a "search" button
> 3- various calculations are made client side according to the selections
> and some data already in the main stack behind the modal one
> 4- a request is sent to a distant mySQL to retrieve text in a DB
> 5- data is sent back to the client (by chunks of 500 lines) and is
> dispatched in different fields in the main stack
> 6- 1 field that contains the main text data has textstyle & textcolor
> modified line by line and often several words can be modified in the
> same line.
> 
> The whole process is quite fast, especially when using "lock screen"
> for steps 3 and 6, but depending on the user"s selection and the
> content of the DB, it can take 3 to 8 seconds at times.
> And what I was looking for was a spinning gif throughout the whole
> process from step 1 to step 6.
> Unfortunately it stops spinning during steps 3 and 6 when using
> "lock screen", which isn't very elegant.
> 
> Finally I replaced the gif with a progress bar which updates every
> 25 lines during step 6 (when more than 100 lines are returned) and
> it's ok, since it allows me to use "lock screen".
> 
> Le 2022-12-20 12:31, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode a écrit :
>> How many chars in the text?
>> I'd wager that unless it's uncommonly enormous, you may find that the
>> one-time cost of writing a handler to use the styledText array of the
>> field will speed things up so much you may not even need anything more
>> than a brief watch cursor.
>> If you can post a sample project with text of similar length we may
>> have another good opportunity like the many forum threads we've seen
>> where long processes become brief blips with iterations from the
>> community.
>> --
>> Richard Gaskin
>> Fourth World Systems
>> jbv wrote:
>>> Le 2022-12-20 08:19, Brian Milby via use-livecode a écrit :
>>>> Could you make changes to htmlText in a variable and then assign all
>>>> at once back to the field?
>>> I thought of that, but it makes other parts of the script more complicated.
>>> Finally I will chose a different strategy : instead of an animated gif, I'm
>>> gonna use a progress bar that will be updated every 10 lines...
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