Codejock Developer Community : Icon Update http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:31:11 +0000 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:12:23 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=7406 <![CDATA[Codejock Developer Community]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ <![CDATA[Icon Update : Sounds like some architectural...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7406&PID=23845&title=icon-update#23845 Author: apuhjee
Subject: 7406
Posted: 20 June 2007 at 11:12am

Sounds like some architectural refactoring needs to occur ]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:12:23 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7406&PID=23845&title=icon-update#23845 <![CDATA[Icon Update : Hi, thanks, but doevents...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7406&PID=23840&title=icon-update#23840 Author: User999
Subject: 7406
Posted: 20 June 2007 at 7:34am

Hi,
 
thanks, but
 
doevents '--------------- This line
 
is what we want to avoid (s.o.) because other operations could start with this line - and this shall not happen.
 
 
 
]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:34:34 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7406&PID=23840&title=icon-update#23840 <![CDATA[Icon Update : HI you can use Doevents command...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7406&PID=23839&title=icon-update#23839 Author: free_user
Subject: 7406
Posted: 20 June 2007 at 7:21am

HI
you can use Doevents command like this:
.Actions(MenüID1).IconId = ID_ActionIsRunning
doevents '--------------- This line
Do
....   operation code..
Loop
.Actions(MenüID1).IconId = ID_ActionIsOver
]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:21:55 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7406&PID=23839&title=icon-update#23839 <![CDATA[Icon Update : Thank you for the hint. The overhead...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7406&PID=23834&title=icon-update#23834 Author: User999
Subject: 7406
Posted: 20 June 2007 at 4:31am

Thank you for the hint. The overhead would be to big for an asynchronous solution in this case. But we found that the WinAPI function
 
UpdateWindow .FindControl(, MenüID1).Parent.hwnd
produces an immediate redraw of the parent commandbar. Hope that this is the solution.
 
 
]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:31:38 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7406&PID=23834&title=icon-update#23834 <![CDATA[Icon Update : I ran into a similar problem the...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7406&PID=23800&title=icon-update#23800 Author: apuhjee
Subject: 7406
Posted: 19 June 2007 at 10:56am

I ran into a similar problem the first time I tried writing "progress bar" code.  The bar would sit at zero and then hit 100% once the running method had completed.
 
The solution was to put the UI update code in a seperate thread by making Asynchronous method calls.  That's in the .NET world.  I'm not so sure you'll be so lucky with VB6.
 
Here are two blog posts by Jeff Atwood related to the subject:
 
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000159.html
 
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000370.html
 
Cheers ~ jp
]]> Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:56:38 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7406&PID=23800&title=icon-update#23800 <![CDATA[Icon Update : Hi, wewould liketo indicate...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7406&PID=23797&title=icon-update#23797 Author: User999
Subject: 7406
Posted: 19 June 2007 at 9:52am

Hi,
 
we would like to indicate a running operation by changing the icon of a commandbar button (vb6 code):
 
.Actions(MenüID1).IconId = ID_ActionIsRunning
Do
....   operation code..
Loop
.Actions(MenüID1).IconId = ID_ActionIsOver
 
The problem is that the icon does not update even if we use .redrawbar but only if we add a "DoEvents" statement between icon assignment and loop. But we cannot use "DoEvents" here for other reasons.
Is there a solution for this?
 
Thank you
Andreas
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