Re: Displaying Time
Posted in 1994
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