Re: Progress bars (WAS: performance loading a subfile)

Just a guess, but how about a output-only field 50 characters wide with
color red, then just place a green attribute byte at the dividing point
between complete and incomplete based on your % calculation. When it
changes, you blank out the entire field, put the attribute byte at the
appropriate positon, and center the xx% done.  Centering the xx% so that it
misses the green attribute byte might be a little tricky, but not
impossible.

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: <booth@martinvt.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: Progress bars (WAS: performance loading a subfile)


> (FYI, I used Hummingbird's 5250 client and it worked well.)
>
> But how do you make the actual bar with the red/green reverse image
> display?   I can do the numbers and get the % easily enough but the actual
> color bar with the red-to-green is a mystery.
>
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> Booth Martin
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>
> "James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@attglobal.net>
> Sent by: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com
> 09/13/2000 03:04 PM
> Please respond to RPG400-L
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>         To:     RPG400-L@midrange.com
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: Progress bars (WAS: performance loading a
subfile)
>
> Mike,
>
> What are you using as a telnet client?
>
> Mochasoft and PSI will render the colors properly, but Netwolf does not.
>
> BTW, the site is hosted by John Ross.
>
> As to how it's done, the progress bar program is a standalone program
> called by the program doing the processing.
>
> At program initialization time, the number of records in the file to be
> processed is divided by 100 to get the xx% increment and the progress
> bar program is called to establish start time, within the mainline code
> each record is counted and compared to the increment value.  Once the
> increment value is reached, the progress bar program is called again and
> the xx% completed, current entry number, elapsed time and estimated
> remaining time is redisplayed.  At LR the progress bar program is called
> again with a shutdown flag.
>
> The estimated completion time does -not- work if you are using OPNQRYF
> with record selection.  The file feedback data structure will give the
> total number of records on file, not the records selected.
>
> J. Kilgore
>
> Mike Silvers wrote:
>
> > where is the example of the progress bar?  I tried as described on the
> > list before, but I was not able to signon..
> >
> >      Subject:        RE: Progress bars (WAS: performance loading
> >      a subfile)
> >      Martin
> >      You can view an example of progress bar running.Telnet to
> >      63.167.147.10
> >      .It leads to netshare400.com.i think hosted by James
> >      Kilgore.Signon as
> >      WYATTERP with the same name as password.You will see a menu
> >      run the first
> >      one boom u will see the progress bar running.Well I havent
> >      checked how
> >      it's done I am too interested!
> >
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