Re: QRY400 Status Message Technique

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you looking for a progress bar?  Here's a link with 7 year-old code, 
but I am sure you can update it and use it, if it is what you are 
looking for.  It is RPG, not CL, but perhaps you can figure out a way?

http://www.martinvt.com/Code_Samples/Progress_Bar/progress_bar.html
or
*http://tinyurl.com/d28hf

Gads, that code is terrible!  I can't believe I ever wrote anything like 
that, and its only 7 years old.  ah well, there it is if you can use it.

*c.chambers@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Rob,
>
>
> I was using the CPYF only as an example. You got it right though when
> you suggested I could put in a sliding bar - that is what I'm ultimately
> trying to achieve. 
>
> At a more general level - let me try and explain the conundrum again : 
>
> how can I kick off a command in a CL program and then monitor the
> progress of that command and show that to the user - is there some magic
> technique or do I have to rewrite the command in a high level language
> and output appropriate message at each record count ? Is this what QRY +
> OPNQRYF is effectively doing ?
>
> Chris Chambers