Hi,

I was wondering if there is a possibility to cancel the execution of a program script (for example a report who's taking a very long time) by pressing escape key during the execution of the scipt.

! I don't want to loose the lines allready processed by script !
This mean I must be able to print the report with partial data on it.

Thank you,
Bogdan

There is no standard way that I know (except kill)
you could write code into your program script, that
asked the user every so many records, or so many minutes,
'Stop now or keep going Yes / No'

But that is fairly in-elegant.
John
PS, the flame answer is:
"Write more efficient scripts"
thank god you can't see some of the bad code I've written.

John,

In BaanERP the concept you have outlined is used in creating "Progress Indicators". This has multiple options:

- pure text
- progress bar (with or without text)
- with stop / cancel buttons

The downside of this is performance degradation. They infact had to write a session to disable the progress indicators as an after thought.

I have seen in Baan IV dlls (back ported from BaanERP?) which seemed to house the progress indicator code... even though I have not seen any actual usage. Could someone validate this?

Hi,
Thanks for replys.

Yes, you're wright: write more eficient code :) , but as far as I know BaaN is very limited in this direction at least from the point of view of final user (do you know docs for embeded BaaN functions ? do you know how to control a table's records in a BaaN script ?
I'll give you the Fox or Paradox example (yes, yes, I know, it's like comparing a horse with a Ferrari :) ).

OK, let's go back to reality. My problem is that I'm using tfgld410 (a HUGE table) with some silly indexes (I don't know who's using these indexes and I can't add new ones). For the moment I solve the problem; it's working so-so.

But, let me reformulate my original thred: How can be done a deamon in BaaN ?

Thank you again.

Hi Guys!

I'm attempting to use the progress indicator in my Baan 5 script, but when compiling, I get the message 'Unresolved reference to function "create.progress.indicator"'.

Obviously, there is a library missing which contains the code, but where can I find this library? Anyone? Thanks!
:D

It's OK. I've found the library I wanted!

For anyone who's interested, in order to use the progress indicator, you need to include the line:

#include <bic_progress>

at the top of your program. This gives you access to the create.progress.indicator() function and associated routines.

Cheers!

Also, there are a bunch of #defines in itcmcs2000 wrt progress indicators.