Please wait function with continued processing

[Thingy2nl]

Hi,

Not sure if anybody is interested, but I came across some questions about a wait screen to present to the user while the system is doing whatever needs to be done. I could not find something the was easy to use and stayed on screen while the script actually continues. So I came up with the follow.... maybe somebody will find it usefull.

I started by getting a semi random wait animated gif. I use this one:

Then I proceded to add the _GUIResourcePic.au3 from JScript found here:

Finally i added 2 functions to my au3 like this:

Func Wait( $WaitTime )
$smallform = GUICreate('', 214, 138, Default, Default, BitOR($WS_POPUP, $WS_BORDER), $WS_EX_TOPMOST)
_GUICtrlPic_Create(".\processing.gif", 1, 1, 0, 0)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $smallform)
sleep( $WaitTime)
EndFunc

Note the @smallform that I declare Global in a seperate au3 and the size settings 214, 138 that are the same size as the gif.

Func EndWait()
GUIDelete($smallform)
EndFunc

Now, when i know I am going to do something that will take some time, I call the Wait() function. That will open a new, borderless GUI

telling the user to wait, and when done, turn off the GUI with the EndWait().

I added the variable sleep time because I have somoe functions that will take 4 or 5 seconds. To short to build the GUI and display it

correctly, but to long not to show anything. In those cases I add additional 2 or 3 seconds waittime to give the GUI time to build and the

user to actually see something.

Secondly, I choose to rebuild and delete the GUI every time a I had some issues reusing just one GUI. The GUI would display, but the

animated GIF was not shown on consecutive uses....

So, hope someone can use this to his advantage

[romanais]

Hello, and thank you !

I tested your script, and I've no problem with consecutive uses.

I just changed

sleep( $WaitTime )
to
sleep( $WaitTime * 1000)

So I can use your function with

Wait(10) ;time in seconds