On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Emile SCHWARZ wrote:
> Office no more with VBA in the next version
It may interest some folks to know that NeoOffice (http://
neooffice.org) *does* support VBA. And the new Office file format.
It's also scriptable in Python.
Regards,
Guyren G Howe
Relevant Logic LLC
guyren-at-relevantlogic.com ~ http://relevantlogic.com
REALbasic, PHP, Ruby/Rails, Python programming
PostgreSQL, MySQL database design and consulting
Technical writing and training
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:33:25 -0600
Subject: Re: what can occur during a long method?
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On Mar 29, 2007, at 15:40 UTC, Peter K. Stys wrote:
> At the same time, most often i want to run a batch operation like
> John, and all i want is the progressBar or a staticText value to be
> updated. So I use App.DoEvents, with no obvious issues.
Ow! Reminds me of the guys driving down the freeway at 80MPH on
motorcycles without helmets. They haven't run into any obvious issues
yet either.
> RS says don't!, use a thread instead. but I need my batch operation
> to run synchronously with the rest of my app (ie. user can't
> continue doing anything else until the batch finishes). So now what?
So you display a modal dialog. That's what they're for.
> I understand how App.doEvents could be hazardous to your health.
> Instead, wouldn't it be just plain nice and simple if my loop could
> call myWindow.refresh at each iteration and this would simply do what
> everyone expects it to do: update the state of all controls in said
> window?
No, it wouldn't, because your users would still be unable to browse the
menus, or move the window, or avoid the Spinning Beachball of Apparent
Death, or otherwise have a pleasant user experience.
Best,
- Joe
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