Re: [Pythoncard-users] Processing... Messagebox

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

At 16:47 27/06/2004 +0100, Alex Tweedly wrote:
>At 07:16 23/06/2004 -0700, ralph heimburger wrote:
>
>>I created a report interface that when the user presses the "GO" button, 
>>I  want to display a "Processing..." message.  I think it's basically a 
>>MessageDialog with no buttons and no return values but I can't find how 
>>to do it.
>
>I doubt if you should use a MessageDialog - that's really intended for 
>getting input from the user (though you could probably do it).
>I'd suggest a ProgressDialog - and if it's going to take long enough to be 
>worth putting up a "Processing ..." message, it's probably worth giving 
>some progress info to keep the user satisfied.
>And in that case, you should consider whether it is feasible, and 
>desirable, to allow the user to abort the processing ....


Well, sometimes I argue with myself ..... :-)

If you just want a simple message, then you can
  - use Resource Editor to create a New / Standard Template with no menus
      (save it as message.rsrc.py)
  - Add a single, StaticText field
  - edit message.py to make the name be MyMessage

Note - this will be a general purpose "message window" so you can re-use it 
for any message for any future apps.

and then put into you main app

from message import MyMessage

and then to show / remove it, do something like

         self.win = model.childWindow(self, MyMessage)
         self.win.components.StaticText1.text = "My new processing ..."
         self.win.SetPosition((200,-1))
         self.win.Show(1)
  # do the real work here
         self.win.Show(0)   # to remove it

-- Alex.