Why is Put not Putting

Gregory Lypny gregory.lypny at videotron.ca
Mon Aug 17 13:05:21 EDT 2009


Thank you, Ian.  Worked like a charm!

	Gregory

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009, at 1:00 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
  wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:56:45 +0100
> From: Ian Wood <revlist at azurevision.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Why is Put not Putting?
> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> On 17 Aug 2009, at 16:53, Gregory Lypny wrote:
>
>> I use the simple handler below to process large amounts of text.
>> Because it can take anywhere from a couple of seconds to ten minutes
>> to run, I like to know that something is happening, so I put the
>> very first statement in the handler, "Preparing for search..." which
>> is supposed to appear in field "Info 1" to let me know that the
>> thing has started.  The trouble is, that little progress message
>> never appears,
>
> Try adding a 'wait 10 milliseconds with messages' line after setting
> the text of the field - this should force Rev to update the screen
> part way through the handler.
>
> Ian




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