Re: Popup temporary window

BINGO!

John, you are "da man"! The only difference is I have to write the window
before I initialize the SFL header.

Works great! Thank you very much!

~TA~



"John McKay"<jmckay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mailman.4891.1318950774.2520.rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx...

On the dds for the window, I use OVERLAY, LOCK and FRCDTA.

In the RPG code, I WRITE the window record format after I initialise the
subfile header but before I load records into the subfile detail.

Regards,
John Mckay mba
www.rpglanguage.com

On 18/10/2011 15:44, Timothy Adair wrote:

In an RPG pgm, I want to temporarily pop up a small window and then have
it
go away with no user interaction. It's a subfile inquiry program and the
subfile takes about 5-10 seconds to load. I want to pop up a window that
says "LOADING..." during this 5-10 seconds. If I do a WRITE it doesn't
show
up until the next EXFMT. If instead I do an EXFMT, it waits until the
user
presses Enter and then takes 5-10 seconds to load the sfl.

I tried the KEEP keyword and it seems to make no difference.

SNDPGMMSG is not really an option, as I want a window to pop up in the
middle of the screen.

Any ideas? Am I missing something obvious?

As always, I welcome any and all responses.

TIA,

~TA~