Pointless and Flashy

[clive2002]

I've written some really nice code for a scheduled task thats runs in about three minutes. However it looks really boring at the moment.

Does anybody have any cool looking examples of some screen effects to run while its churning away. There are lots of stages to the code, i'd like to have some indication of the current stage scrolling up the screen as it completes or something like that.

But the main aim is to create something completly pointless and flashy to impress anybody who happens to see the code running.

 

[WayneRyan]

clive2002,

You could create a series of Modal Popup windows
to display whatever you want. Each window could
use the timer event to close itself after a
certain amount of time.

Wayne

 

[clive2002]

More Flashyness Needed

Trouble is i have about 100 stages i want to show.

The message variable is update as the code runs, so the fisrt line of the code would be StrMSG = "Doing Stage 1", then the next section of code would include StrMSG = "Doing Stage 2" and so on. but how can i set this up to change the MSG displayed on the form and scroll the previous message up the form till it goes of the top of the display window.

Eg.

***********************
* *
* Doing Stage 1 *
***********************

***********************
* Doing Stage 1 *
* Doing Stage 2 *
***********************

***********************
* Doing Stage 2 *
* Doing Stage 3 *
***********************

I'll have about 5 rows in the full version each being a control to display the MSG or PreviousMSG or PreviousPreviousMSG, ect. i'll set the Controls to use a fainter font colour as they move up. It will look so Flashy!

Just need some help with the code to change the display every time the MSG changes.

Also like to see any think else that looks cool.

 

[Paul_B]

I use animated gifs on a pop-up form while my code is running... and just for the fun of it, the code also randomly selects which gif each time it's run.

If your interested search the Forms Forum on how to get them to work.


Paul.