RE: Popup temporary window -- RPG400-L

In the Output keywords, I used FRCDTA (put data before buffer is full) to make this happen.

Here's the help for the keyword

Put Data Before Full Buffer - Help

Type Y (Yes) to force all pending output operations,
including the current record, immediately to the display.
You can specify this keyword when the DFRWRT (defer
writing) parameter for the CRTDSPF (create display file)
command has the default condition.

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:37 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Popup temporary window

on the CRTDSPF command...

Defer Write....DFRWRT(*NO)

That will make the window pop up as soon as you WRITE

HTH,
Charles

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Timothy Adair <tadair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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~

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