Re: Is there a ProfoundUI tutorial? -- MIDRANGE-L

Mark,

I assume you are working with the Visual Designer for the Profound UI Rich Display option.

To make a popup/floating window that hovers over a display:

1) Start a new record format
2) Set the screen's "show as window" property to true
3) Drag in a dialog or panel widget
4) Put the other widgets you'd like for the window onto the panel/dialog
5) When you EXFMT this will give a window that can be moved around by grabbing the title bar of the dialog or panel widget, it will overlay the screens you wrote previously, and will "float above them"

Alternately, if your goal is to make a window that's completely separate (i.e. runs in a separate browser window or tab) you can do with some JavaScript that creates a new window with window.open(). It all depends on what you want to do.

The Rich Display should be providing a spinning circle type icon that is displayed when waiting for processing. You can configure that icon, or have it display text like "processing, please wait" or various other things by changing these configuration options:
http://www.profoundlogic.com/docs/display/PUI/Loading+Animation

Alternately, if the goal is to control it in your application, you could write a display (such as a window that prints "please wait" or something) and display that from your program. This is a little tricky because of the way web technology works. In web technology all requests are initiated in the web browser. The server can never initiate a request to a browser, it must always be the browser initiating the request to the server. For this reason, the server can't display one screen and then later display another one unless the browser requests the second one. But, you can write a little bit of JavaScript code in your display to make that second request for you, allowing it to work pretty easily.

We'd be happy to help you, answer your questions, and we could even provide an introductory demonstration (over Goto Meeting or similar) to help you understand the tools. Please feel free to contact us for help.

support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- for technical questions or support.

sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- for pricing, demonstrations, etc.

If you have any trouble or questions, please feel free to contact me. I'm a little busy, so not checking Midrange-L as frequently, but you can e-mail me directly if you like, or E-mail Profound at one of those addresses.

Thanks!

On 1/27/2016 11:28 AM, mlazarus wrote:

Hi Scott,

I checked out that link. It's pretty sparse, information wise. I was
looking for something like a cookbook approach to various tasks, or a
series of brief how-to videos.

Some examples might be:
- How to create a floating (movable) pop-up window vs. a fixed window.

- How to simulate the 5250 input inhibited status by displaying a
"Processing, please wait" type of pop-up, which would automatically
display when a "Go" button is pressed and disappear when the resulting
screen is displayed. This situation would be required when the
ProfoundUI is running the SQL statement vs. the RPG program.

-mark

On 1/18/2016 5:54 PM, Scott Klement wrote:

Mark,

Assuming you mean the Visual Designer for the Rich Display
environment, there's "Getting Started" and "Walkthough", etc
information here:
http://www.profoundlogic.com/docs/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=819253

Profound also offers on-site training among other things.

It's probably best to take this off of Midrange-L, however. Profound
has web-based forums if you like the public forum approach:
http://www.profoundlogic.com/forum/

Or else contact Profound Logic support for help:
http://www.profoundlogic.com/contact?type=support

If you have any trouble using either of these resources, please feel
free to contact me off-list, I'd be happy to assist.

-SK

On 1/18/2016 10:16 AM, mlazarus wrote:

Does anyone know of a tutorial for the ProfoundUI designer product?