How do I get a Timer to update in a user dialog box

Question

I am trying to display timer that would continuously update on a user dialog box (It would start when a button was clicked). What would be the best way to do this?
Drew

Answer 1

Hi Drew,
I'm sorry, I didn't test that idea.  Now that I have, I see that the textbox only updates after the ButtonClick callback as completed, so instead of seeing the textbox count up from 1 to 10 in my code, I only see it show 10 after 10 seconds have passed.  Before that it does look like DIAdem is hung, but it wasn't in my case.
OK, so that means you need to pop up a new progress dialog.  You could create a second dialog defined in that same *.SUD file or create a new *.SUD file with a progress indicator on it, or you could use DIAdem's native non-modal dialog with MsgBoxDisp().  I did test this code
Sub Button1_EventClick(ByRef This) 'Created Event Handler
Dim i, iMax, Msg
iMax = 10
FOR i = 1 TO iMax
Call Pause(1)
Msg = "Second " & i & " of " & iMax & " ..."
Call MsgBoxDisp(Msg, "MB_NOBUTTON", "MsgTypeNote", 0, 0, 1)
NEXT ' i
Call MsgBoxCancel
End Sub
Brad Turpin
DIAdem Product Support Engineer
National Instruments