Beautifying Key Rebuild with Progress Indicator Window?




Hi,

Am trying to push all functionality of an
old DOS application from another company at
a customers site into an Clarion for Win solution.

Now, we do not want to touch their
DOS FoxPro databases to prevent getting
blamed if anything goes wrong on that end.

We cannot spend the time and energy to solve that.

So we copy the files over for the time being
to another directory on a <g> Linux server. And
work from those copies as we are in the phase of
creating the report-modules etc. first. We are using
a lot of different keys/indexes than the FoxPro applica-
tion of course. So these are to be build from scratch eve-
ry time the application is first opened (copying for repor-
ting purposes is limited to one-two times a day for now, so
there is not a problem there). But this building of the keys
on some of the larger databases over an old 10 mpbs takes ages.

Eh .... <g> in fact it is only five minutes.

But the users gets confused, after announcing
that it will (re-) build the key the windows an-
nounding that disappears after an OK (could'nt we
get rid of that with a simple progress procedure, i.e.
step 1 - rebuilding key .... for database ... etc. etc)
and there is no progress indicator as with the repors etc.

Anybody ever seen a more elegant solution or this?

best regards
from Leeuwarden
Peter van Dobben de Bruijn

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