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Chasing arrows don't chase

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Subject: Chasing arrows don't chase
From: knee <knee at ihug dot co dot nz>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 14:29:58 +1200
My app has one main window containing a PagePanel with 7 pages and upwards of 250 controls. When I launch the app it takes some time for RB to initialize my database and "assemble" this main window before I show it - a few seconds anyway. I therefore put up a little splash window first to assure the user that something IS happening, then hide it when the main window is ready to be shown. I put a ChasingArrows control on this splash window, but the arrows don't chase - they're just a static display, I can't get them to rotate. I've tried "refreshing" the splash window, and putting elements of the startup procedure in a thread, but this just makes the main window get drawn element by element on the screen - very ugly - even though I "hide" it first. Any ideas?

   Ian

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                    Ian G. Morris   -   Tonewright
                         ian at igmusic dot co dot nz

       "I get confused - did we go to the Moon and meet aliens,
         or was the whole thing faked? I can never remember."


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