Re: Automatic Update of Display Window

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ron,

Repeated WRITE's should do it, with no READ's or EXFMT's. Also, on the
CRTDSPF (or CHGDSPF after the fact), make sure you specify DFRWRT(*NO).

hth,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax


----- Original Message -----
From: "Falconberry, Ron G." <PGRGF@mail.directins.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 12:50 PM
Subject: Automatic Update of Display Window


> Is there a way to display a window in an interactive job where the window
> data is automatically updated without the user having to press any keys?
>
> We have converted a submitted RPGLE program to run interactively.  To
> indicate to the user that the program is functioning and not just locked
up,
> I wanted to display a popup window which automatically displays some data
> from the transaction being currently processed.  When the program ends,
the
> window also closes and the previous screen is redisplayed.  Unfortunately,
> everything I have tried either forces the user to press Enter before the
> program continues or the program runs to completion without any window
being
> displayed at all.
>
> Is there a way to do this using a window - or even a regular screen - or
am
> I running down a dead-end street?  I am open to alternative ideas.
>
> Ron Falconberry
> pgrgf@mail.directins.com
> (615) 360-4527
>
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