• a5_activate_phone Function
• A5_ADDIN_MANAGER Function
• a5_append_op_result Function
• a5_argumentsdialog Function
• a5_configure_update_chk Function
• a5_copy_op_result Function
• a5_defaultbrowseonxdialog Function
• A5_EDIT_SPEED_GLOSSARY Function
• a5_export_op_result Function
• a5_fixxdialogpositions Function
• A5_GENERIC_PRINT Function
• A5_GENERICSEARCHREPLACE Function
• a5_genieheadinghtml Function
• a5_get_toolbar_xdialog Function
• a5_global_search_scripts Function
• a5_gridcomponentopeninwindow Function
• a5_imp_append_op_result Function
• a5_is_find_by_key_open Function
• a5_linktoolbar Function
• a5_mark_op_result Function
• A5_OWNER_DRAW_LIST_FMT Function
• a5_paste_special Function
• a5_post_op_result Function
• A5_PROMPT_FOR_IMAGENAME Function
• a5_request_activation Function
• a5_selectwinusers Function
• a5_sendexportorprint_code Function
• a5_setamyuniprops Function
• a5_showpopuphelp Function
• a5_update_op_result Function
• a5_wait_xdialog Function
• a5_xd_genie_listvcodeget Function
• a5_xd_genie_simplechartcodeget Function
• a5_xdialog_builder_genie Function
• a5_xdialog_font_override Function
• a5_xdialog_preprocess Function
• A5_XdialogPreProcess Function
• a5_zip_db_dialog Function
• ShowDiff Function
• TextToSpeech Function
• UI_WAIT_UNTIL Function
• Xdialog_Play Function

a5_wait_xdialog Function

Syntax

Arguments

msg

Character. Display message as a character text string

width

Numeric

Description

Displays a modeless Xdialog telling user to wait. Xdialog title is returned so that calling code can close it.

Discussion

The a5_wait_xdialog function opens a modeless xdialog displaying the hourglass icon followed by the text string message. The xdialog title of "a5_wait_xdialog" is returned which is needed to code for the closing of the wait dialog.

Example

a5_wait_xdialog("The time is now")
Xbasic_wait_for_idle()
sleep(3)
ui_modeless_dlg_close("a5_wait_xdialog")

or 

dim vR as C
vR=a5_wait_xdialog("The time is now")
Xbasic_wait_for_idle()
sleep(3)
ui_modeless_dlg_close(vR)