RE: Automatic Update of Display Window

I have done this in the past by just periodically WRITEing the display
format.  You have to define it as force data (FRCDTA?) to force the display
to be seen by the user without doing a READ.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Falconberry, Ron G. [mailto:PGRGF@mail.directins.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 1:51 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> 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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