Delayed UI Code

[rorybecker]

I am using Studio 2008 with .Net 3.5. and my Brain is Fried :)

My user will use typical 'next' and 'previous' buttons to navigate records
in my app.

They will sometimes be in the habit of hittting the next button repeatedly
not giving the screen time to finish refreshing it's current record before
moving to the next.

I would like my program to work like this....
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Sub JumpNextRecord()
Call ChangeRecordPointer
Call UpdateWinformElement1FromDB
Call UpdateWinformElement2FromDB
Call CallDelayed(AddressOf UpdateWinformElement3FromDB, 250)
End Sub
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'UpdateWinformElement1FromDB' and 'UpdateWinformElement2FromDB' are simple
methods but 'UpdateWinformElement3FromDB' is complex and time consuming and
therefore I would like to only call it once the user has remained on the
current record for 250 ms or more.

This would allow me to hit a NextRecord button 5 times really quickly and
for the system to only call 'UpdateWinformElement3FromDB' 1 time once I stop
doing that.

Does anyone know how to do this?

--
Rory

[Henning Krause [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi Rory,

see http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/arch...8/5512423.aspx for a
solution.

Kind regards,
Henning Krause

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>I am using Studio 2008 with .Net 3.5. and my Brain is Fried :)

My user will use typical 'next' and 'previous' buttons to navigate records
in my app.

They will sometimes be in the habit of hittting the next button repeatedly
not giving the screen time to finish refreshing it's current record before
moving to the next.

I would like my program to work like this....
-------------------------------------------------------------
Sub JumpNextRecord()
Call ChangeRecordPointer
Call UpdateWinformElement1FromDB
Call UpdateWinformElement2FromDB
Call CallDelayed(AddressOf UpdateWinformElement3FromDB, 250)
End Sub -------------------------------------------------------------

'UpdateWinformElement1FromDB' and 'UpdateWinformElement2FromDB' are simple
methods but 'UpdateWinformElement3FromDB' is complex and time consuming
and therefore I would like to only call it once the user has remained on
the current record for 250 ms or more.

This would allow me to hit a NextRecord button 5 times really quickly and
for the system to only call 'UpdateWinformElement3FromDB' 1 time once I
stop doing that.

Does anyone know how to do this?

--
Rory

[Rory Becker]

Hello Henning Krause [MVP - Exchange],

see http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/arch...8/5512423.aspx
for a solution.

Thanks Henning

That's exactly what I was looking for.

I have had to do a little translation to VB.Net, but it's good to have to
do that sort of thing occasionally.

Either way it works perfectly

Thanks again.