Problem with Widget Spinner

[CAsba]

Hi,
Using this code

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  lock screen
   send "mouseup" to btn "inputdg3" 
   unlock screen
   show widget "spinner"
   send "mouseup"  to btn "setDG "  
   send "mouseup" to btn "listanother" of cd "manage products"

The widget shows, but does not 'spin'.
This in the IDE, haven't tried in standalone.
Any ideas ?

[richmond62]

Here's something "babyish" made with LC 8.2 DP 2 (because I happen to be in front of a machine running MacOS 10.7.5 today).
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Button code:

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on mouseUp
   if the vis of widget "Spinner" is true then
      set the vis of widget "Spinner" to false
      set the label of me to "SHOW"
   else
      set the vis of widget "Spinner" to true
      set the label of me to "HIDE"
   end if
end mouseUp

Give it a whirl: if it works on your machine it is your code: if it doesn't work then it must be something a bit wrong with your machine.

[bn]

Hi Casba,

the widget spinner is not spinning while LC is executing. You can make it spin if you add

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 wait 0 milliseconds with messages

occasiionally.

This script only shows that the widget spins during a lengthy script:

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on mouseUp
   repeat with i = 1 to 100000000
      put " fljlakjf lkasjd ölkajd lköas " into tTemp
      if i mod 10000 is 0 then
         wait 0 milliseconds with messages
      end if
   end repeat
   beep
end mouseUp

If you wait too often it will slow down execution time too much, if only a couple of times spinner will advance only slowly.

Kind regards
Bernd

[SWEdeAndy]

I find the spinner widget rather useless, as it tends to freeze precisely when you want it to spin: during lockScreen or database fetches.

A good alternative is to use a browser widget spinner, which always spins:
https://wheninspace.com/browseranimation/

[FourthWorld]

I find the spinner widget rather useless, as it tends to freeze precisely when you want it to spin: during lockScreen or database fetches.

It would be very convenient if GIF animation was asynchronous.
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7600

[PaulDaMacMan]

The widget shows, but does not 'spin'.
This in the IDE, haven't tried in standalone.
Any ideas ?

Could it be that this Spinner Widget does not spin only when the IDE is in 'Edit Mode'? Does it spin if you're on the Browser Tool?
I believe Widget OnTimer is execution context sensitive, I don't think it runs when the IDE is in Edit Mode.

[stam]

yeah, it spins for me during long pulls with blocking code - but only in browse tool, not pointer tool (ie when running, not editing, the stack).