OpenEuphoria

Re: Why Does Child Window Disappear?

• Posted by "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> Jan 22, 2003
• 411 views

> > > Windows doesn't like busy-loops like your "pause" function.  You are
> > > needlessing spinning away doing nothing but chewing CPU time that
could
> > > be used to draw your window properly.  Try using a timer...
> >
> > Look at this code... No "busy-loops." How else would you program it so
that the
> > child window SHOWS UP and is displayed by Winblows while the counter
increases?
>
> Smaller for loop and a sleep(x)?

What if I can't go smaller? What if I'm doing 10000 steps and want to report
on each step?

The point is, I don't care what I'm having to do, Windows needs to display
the stuff properly! Or I need to know what to do so it is displayed
properly...