Re: Displaying Time

Dennis Pimple (dennisp@informix.com) wrote: : rrt@eagle.ibc.edu (Thinker) writes: : >Hello all! : >I have been wondering if anyone has a good way to display the current : >time to the screen, perferably to a form, and continue to update the time : >during execution of the program. : >I am using 4gl for windows. : >Will the RUN - Without Waiting command work or is there a better way. : No, and no. You're running into the old infinite loop problem - 4GL is : good at doing one thing at a time, so displaying a running clock is : difficult. The best way is probably a c hack, which I'll leave to other : participants. : ============================================================ : Dennis J. Pimple Informix Software Inc : Senior Consultant Denver Colorado USA : dennisp@informix.com Voice:303-850-0210 Fax:303-779-4025 -- gburnore@netcom.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How you look depends on where you go. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------