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Hello , i trying to figure out how to use the widget "spinner".

As in one of my card there is a lot of information to load, so i thinking if how i can use the widget spinner to make it appear to prevent user thinking my app had hanged while making the card to load the information before going in ~ ~

Example;
Scene 1 : User press this button
Scene 2: Widget spinner appear and spinning
Scene 3: Go to the card with all the information loaded.

Hi jwtea,

do you mean something like this: ?

Best

Klaus

Hello Klaus,

Unfortunately no ~ ~

In my card script, i got a lot of script going on in the preopencard function ~ ~

I wanted to let the preopencard function to run finish before going in the card therefore meanwhile while waiting for the preopencard function , a spinner will appear and spinning ~ ~

Klaus wrote: ↑

Tue May 22, 2018 1:42 pm

Hi jwtea,

do you mean something like this:

Code: Select all

on mouseup
  show widget "your spinner here"
  ## do your loading stuff here...
  ## and here...
  
  hide widget "your spinner here"
  go cd "all infos loaded"
end mouseup

?

Best

Klaus

Hi Klause,
does you code work?
I tried, but I get a fixed spinner showing and hiding. It doesn't spin.

Hi,

I have a similar problem in that my spinner appears and never updates (spins). I don't think its the widget it just that Livecode is to busy doing the other stuff. In my case its loading and resizing image files. I have tried putting a number of "wait with messages" but it will not spin even with a wait of three seconds. The best I came up with was changing the cursor to busy, this does update a little with a 300ms "wait with messages".

Hi Max,

MaxV wrote: ↑

Wed May 23, 2018 12:59 pm

Hi Klause,

is it really that hard to transcribe a (not so) unknown FIVE Letter name?

MaxV wrote: ↑

Wed May 23, 2018 12:59 pm

does you code work?I tried, but I get a fixed spinner showing and hiding. It doesn't spin.

Lets say: it SHOULD work!
I guess Simon is right and this is just like with animated gifs, they will also halt if LC is doing lots of computing stuff.

Best

Klaus

Klaus wrote: ↑

Wed May 23, 2018 3:12 pm

Hi Max,

MaxV wrote: ↑

Wed May 23, 2018 12:59 pm

Hi Klause,

is it really that hard to transcribe a (not so) unknown FIVE Letter name?

Sorry, my fault. For Italians you name is a mess to type. It's totally unnatural because we don't use K and the "laus" is very unorthodox coupling of vocals... and so my hands added a "e" automatically. Do you mind if I call you "Nicola"?
aus dem freundlichen viertel Maximillian

Bug reported: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21300

MaxV wrote: ↑

Thu May 24, 2018 2:43 pm

Do you mind if I call you "Nicola"?

YES!

You can call me Claudio (Maggiore) if you really can't spell Klaus!

I Think we should call you Santa Klaus because you keep giving ....

Lagi

That is two in favor of my favorite nickname for Klaus, now we just change your nationality to Dutch and we're all set

Eho is Klaus? You mean Klausimausi? Aha!

SparkOut wrote: ↑

Thu May 24, 2018 7:31 pm

Klausimausi

I like that one too, I'm flexible. Of course, the most often mangled spelling appears to be "Kalus", but I don't think that one has any flair