Temporary message box

Al Hart

I would like to load an informative message box, but take it down after a couple of seconds - without haging to wait for the user to click OK.

I am going to see if I can do this with a timer, killing the timer thread.

Has anyone done this already?

thomthom

Should be doable with a webdialog - since you then have methods to open and close those windows.

Al Hart

Start and stop timer did not work as well as I had hoped:


def temp_message
	$bdisp = true
	$id1 = UI.start_timer(1, false) {
		puts "A;" + $bdisp.to_s
		if $bdisp
			$bdisp = false
			puts "B;" + $bdisp.to_s
			UI.messagebox("test3" )
		end#if
		}
	$id2 = UI.start_timer(2, false) {
		puts "STOP"
		UI.stop_timer($id1)
		}
end#def

Al Hart

@thomthom said:

Should be doable with a webdialog - since you then have methods to open and close those windows.

Thanks,

I'll have to try a web dialog, but I will wait a few hours to see if anyone already has one.

Dan Rathbun

@al hart said:

@thomthom said:

Should be doable with a webdialog - since you then have methods to open and close those windows.

... but I will wait a few hours to see if anyone already has one.

Don't bother waiting.. you cannot use a messagebox. They are modal (and Ruby stops until they are closed.)

Choice is a WebDialog, or if Win32 only, you can use Win32 API calls to create you own non-modal window.
~

Al Hart

By "waiting", I meant that maybe someone already had a web dialog which did this and would upload it...

(I can always hope! )

@dan rathbun said:

Don't bother waiting.. you cannot use a messagebox. They are modal (and Ruby stops until they are closed.)

Choice is a WebDialog, or if Win32 only, you can use Win32 API calls to create you own non-modal window.

Pout

In the webdialog use this code:
<body onLoad="setTimeout('self.close()',5000)">
with 5000 being the amount of milliseconds that the message is shown

Haven't tried but should work