>Does anyone know of any trick to hide the staggered building of menus being so obvious on a slow machine.
>Eg if I do...
>do MyMenu1.mpr
>do MyMenu2.mpr
>do MyMenu3.mpr
>
>So what I'd like to have happen is
>-freeze screen menu display-
>do MyMenu1.mpr
>do MyMenu2.mpr
>do MyMenu3.mpr
>-unfreeze screen menu display-
>
>i.e. something similar to form.lockscreen method.
>
>any ideas?
If it's during your app's startup, maybe you could use SCREEN=OFF in CONFIG.FPW, then show the _VFP.Screen only after you've finished building the menus.
If it's somewhere in the middle of the app, I don't have any ideas.
Regards. Al
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