Re: updating dialogs

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 13:35:46 -0400

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Fyodor Tkachov wrote:
> Dear Experts,
>
> Perhaps someone has a solution to this problem:
>
> Suppose a long calculation (say, 40 hours) is being done in Blackbox under WinXP.
> For some reason the progress needs to be observed,
> for which purpose there is a dialog which is updated during the calculation.
>
> However, if one switches to another application while the calculation runs, and then back,
> Blackbox presents only a blank screen -- the dialog is no longer updated.
>
> Of course one can circumvent this by writing progress reports to a log file etc.,
> but may be I am missing a simple solution with the dialog update?
>
> Many thanks in advance for any hint.
> Fyodor Tkachov

You may need to run your program as a Services.Action so that the system
can come up and 'breath' once in a while.

-Doug

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