Trying to get the SF wait window control to behave like my old friend THE wait window.



I looked thruough all the overloads and dont see the ability to pause.



I am looping through a few dozen files and want to put in enough of a pause so that each wait window displays the filename is briefly visible. Right now it processes so fast all I see is the last one.



My code:



While en.MoveNext

information = My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFileInfo(CStr(en.Current))

Me.WaitWindow1.ShowWaitWindow("", information.FullName, MicroFour.StrataFrame.Messaging.MessagingCardinalPosition.NorthEast)

'Me.WaitWindow1.HideWaitWindow()

filecount += 1

End While

Keith Chisarik

Hi,

 I am also doing the same and also tried the example from the help. I am not able to Show the Wait window.

 Having said that , Does WaitWindow behave differently when you work in a MDI window?

That is the only difference from what I am doing.

Indira

No.  The wait window will behave the same in this environment as it does on any other form.  When you say that you are not able to show the Wait Window, are you receiving an exception?  Try placing a button on a form and calling the ShowWaitWindow to see if it appears.  If you are calling the WaitWindow on a separate thread then you will need to either invoke it on the main thread or ensure that it is called within the same thread in which you are working.  That would be the only thing I could think of that would cause it not to show.

Hi,

 I sorted out the problem using BackGroundWorker component that is avaliable from .NET. I tried to use ThreadManager, but somehow I couldn't simulate the same way like BackgroundWoker component.

 It seems we need a separate thread. We cannot display WaitWindow on the same thread.

 Thanks

Raja