Widget Spinner

[jwtea]

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.

[Klaus]

Hi jwtea,

do you mean something like this:

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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

[jwtea]

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 ~ ~

[MaxV]

Hi jwtea,

do you mean something like this:

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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.

[Simon Knight]

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".

[Klaus]

Hi Max,

Hi Klause,

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

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

[MaxV]

Hi Max,

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

[MaxV]

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

[Klaus]

Do you mind if I call you "Nicola"?

YES!

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

[Lagi Pittas]

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

Lagi

[bogs]

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

[SparkOut]

Eho is Klaus? You mean Klausimausi? Aha!

[bogs]

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