yeah, that's what I did as well... that's strange.  If you take out everything except

Me.WaitWindow1.ShowWaitWindow("hi")

Does it display when you click the button?

I created a quick test and it seemed to work fine for me.  I attached the sample project I created.

If I try and put a WaitWindow with a pause in any looping structure other than a very simple one I get the error below, just a WaitWindow alone causes no error, but does not display until the end one:



As in doing a read thru an XmlTextReader or looping thru a datatable ....



************** Exception Text **************

System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted.

at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.DefWndProc(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.DefWndProc(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)





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************** JIT Debugging **************

To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this

application or computer (machine.config) must have the

jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.

The application must also be compiled with debugging

enabled.



For example:











When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception

will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer

rather than be handled by this dialog box.


Keith Chisarik

yes sir it does........

Keith Chisarik

Hi,



found something out about it:



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private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

//-- Show the wait window

this.waitWindow1.ShowWaitWindow("TITLE!", "MESSAGE!", MicroFour.StrataFrame.Messaging.MessagingCardinalPosition.Center);

//-- Pause the thread

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);

//-- Hide the wait window

this.waitWindow1.HideWaitWindow();

}

-------------------



sleep(500) will let sleeping the system 500ms and seems to keep the wait window from showing. After that the HideWaitWindow() takes place immediately, so the waitWindow is never shown.



Comment out the HideWaitWindow and try it with Sleep(5000).



Bug or feature? ;-)



As a workaround one can use something from the infoBox class, which will work as expected.



Friendly greetings,



Ralph

Thanks Ralph, I had given up on Wait Window.... Ill give this a shot. Though I do need it to work with a sleep() of less than 5000










Keith Chisarik

Hello Keith,







sorry, maybe I expressed something wrong: I meant _not_ that it is working with a sleep(5000). But one can see that the waitWindow will arise 5 seconds after that sleep, as long as the 'HideWaitWindow()' is commented out or deleted, excluded from executing.



If a HideWaitWindow() is executed, the waitWindow will never be shown.



Seems like the sleep(...) will let sleeping the system, preventing the waitWindow from becoming visible, and the HideWaitWindow()-command will hide a waitWindow never seen...



HTH,



best regards, Ralph

Most likely, the problem is coming from the way that the wait window is being shown... all showing and unshowing of the WaitWindow must be done on the main thread of the application (the UI thread) through synchronization to avoid cross-thread exceptions.  By default, the WaitWindow fades in rather than just poping in, so, if you're doing all of your work on the main thread rather than a side thread, the main thread does not have time to process the fading in/out of the WaitWindow.  So, you might try to set the WaitWindow to show immediately, rather than fade in/out, or start up a background thread that shows the wait window, processes the information and then hides the wait window, allowing the main thread time to hide and show the wait window.

Hope that helps...

I'm trying to troubleshoot some problems we are having with Threads on forms that employ the waitwindow.  How might I go about turning off the fade in/out effect.

I couldn't find any property about it, or do I need to override one of the methods ?

Thanks

Robin Giltner

Are the problems you're having unexpected ThreadAbortExceptions?  Likely thrown within the WndProc for WM_PAINT messages?  If so, we've made changes to fix that very issue.  You should be able to go to the posted updates forum from the board home and find the latest version that will fix that very issue. 

Now, if that's not your issue, you might need to expound upon what it is.  At the moment, there's no way to prevent the wait window from using the fade effect... it always fades in/out.