Automatic Screen Refresh

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:54:45 -0700

Wait!!  I've got it!    Get one of those Perpetual Drinking Birds, add a
special pointer onto its head and let it hit the refresh button on the
keyboard everytime it gets a drink!

Homer Simpson's favorite replacement worker. A delicately balanced hollow
glass bird is partially filled with a special fluid. Place a glass of water
in front of the bird, dunk it's head to get it started, and the changes in
balance caused by evaporation make the entire bird's body bob up & down,
occasionally dipping the bird's beak into the water to "recharge" it. Not
quite perpetual, but goes on for hours or days, as long as it can dip it's
beak into the water in the glass. 

Sorry.  Seriously though - the Reflections scripting laguage will probably
work for you.  We've used it a bit to wake up Windows and issue commands and
transfer files.

cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com]On Behalf Of Pickering, John
(NORBORD)
Sent: 2004 June 23 12:04 PM
To: 'PAUL DIACONESCU'; powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Automatic Screen Refresh

Paul

This is just a suggestion -- untried, untested, worth exactly what you paid
for it :-)

Since the user is running Reflection, why not let Reflection's scripting
language do the work? Start the screen off prompting for your mill code and
display the inventory data as in your original screen. In the postfind you
should be able to invoke a Reflection macro which prompts for input with a
timeout just like the MPE "input" command your posted code uses. Then
Reflection can transmit whatever it receives back to the screen where it
will get processed as before. In effect you're substituting the MPE "input"
command for some equivalent in the Reflection scripting language of your
choice (I still prefer RCL but then I'm a dinosaur according to the co-op
script weenies).

Please let us know if it works :-)

Regards,
JWP

>-----Original Message-----
>From: PAUL DIACONESCU [mailto:paul_diaconescu@hotmail.com]
>Sent: 2004 June 23 10:33 AM
>To: Johnson, Harold A EDUC:EX; powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
>Subject: RE: Automatic Screen Refresh
>
>
>Harold,
>Thank you for your sugestion (use of a scheduler).
>My concern is how to use it.
>
>The user is on a Reflection Window, but he also runs a Quick menu , where 
>he
>
>can go back and forth from one subscreen to an other.
>
>We only want the automatic refresh in the inventory subscreen.
>
>And, in the same time, the user should be able to stop the automatic
>refresh, by hiting a key on the
>keyboard, in order to be able to find the inventory for an other product (a
>new request in the find procedure).
>
>
>
> >From: "Johnson, Harold A EDUC:EX" <Harold.A.Johnson@gems1.gov.bc.ca>
> >To: "'PAUL DIACONESCU'" <paul_diaconescu@hotmail.com>,
> >powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
> >Subject: RE: Automatic Screen Refresh
> >Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:37:40 -0700
> >
> >How about using something like Splinterware's PC scheduler product?  It 
>can
> >detect that a window is open by the title and automatically send a
> >keystroke
> >to the window (like a refresh for find keystroke).  Any scheduler could
> >probably do it, maybe even the Window's Scheduler?
> >
> >This is probably only useful for single PC's or a small number.
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com
> >[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com]On Behalf Of PAUL DIACONESCU
> >Sent: 2004 June 23 5:37 AM
> >To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
> >Subject: RE: Automatic Screen Refresh
> >
> >
> >Has anybody any method on how to do an automatic screen refresh , every 
>15
> >secondes for exemple, without any user interaction (very usefull when you
> >want to continously show to the
> >user, salesman, the most recent inventory data, while he is on the phone
> >with a customer) ?.
> >
> >We found out a method (see yesterday emails), but it works only in
> >powerhouse, not in Axiant.
> >
> >May be a diferent method will work in both.
> >
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