I have the folowing situation. I have code with while looop which call 1 procedure. In this procedure i need to put code that will wait for the user to click on the button and then continue working.
Example
while 1 do
call procedure
procedure begin
somthing
somthing
wait for user to click on the button and continue
somthing
end
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Hello,
>wait for user to click on the button and continue
=
ShowMessage('Click me');
If you're talking about a specific button somewhere on a form, give us a bit more details:
- what calls "while 1 do ..."?
- is it a member of the same form where the button is. Or it is a part of a standalone procedure?
- can the second procedure be a method of that form also?
- there might be more questions later on...
Regards, Geo
All is on the same form, somthing like this: Start procedure will loop and in every loop will call Get, Get will do somthing then wait user to click on Button1 and then do somthing again.
procedure Get(var1, var2 : string);
begin
do somthing
do somthing
wait use to click on the button which is on the same form
do somthing
end;
procedure TfrmWork.Button1Click(Send
begin
this is the on button click code
end;
procedure Start(var1, var2 : string);
begin
while 1 do
Get(var1, var);
end;
for that procedure start rather use a timer1 to loop the get procedure
then in get create a loop with "repeat" and application.processmessage
will allow the user to click the button thats on the same form in order for him to continue
example below
etc...
var carryon : boolean; //global var
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
carryon := false;
end
procedure Get(var1, var2 : string);
begin
do somthing
do somthing
repeat
if carryon = true then
begin
//wait use to click on the button which is on the same form
end;
application.processmessage
until carryon = true; //now that carryon = true program can finish...
do somthing
end;
procedure TForm1.Timer1Timer(Sender:
begin
Get(var1, var2);
end;
procedure TfrmWork.Button1Click(Send
begin
carryon := true;
// this is the on button click code
end;
peace Scay7
Sorry forgot to mention that when the program is created the timer1 is enabled meaing every second (you can change this time) it will call the GET procedure and stay inside the loop until users interaction is clicked and the finish
Other wise
when putting the timer1 on the form make is enabled property disabled.
the use someother button to enabled the timer and start the get process
peace Scay7
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by: ciulyPosted on 2006-05-20 at 05:34:51ID: 16724219
there is evry little information and too many solutions to point you in teh right direction for your situation. so here are a few solutions:
- use a modal form that only has one or 2 buttons (like ok, cancel) and do a showmodal instead of the "wait for user to click on the button and continue"
- if the button doesn't have an event associated then:
write an onclick event handler in it set the variable isok to true;
assign the new onclick event handler to te buttons onclick event
(the above is done only once) now comes the while 1 do
set a variable isok to false;
instead of "wait for user to click on the button and continue" do:
while not isok do
begin
application.processmessage
sleep(50);
end;
while 1 do is now finished
set the onclick event of the button to nil
- if the button has an event handler, do as above, but:
first save the event handler to say buttonclicksaved
after the while not isok do
if assigned(buttonclicksaved)
buttonclicksaved(this);// to call the saved event handler
at finish, instead of settting the button event to nil, set it to buttonclicksaved