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How to intercept an action when program is running?


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Hello,

A new question just came across. How to intercept an action when program is running? To be more specific, for example, I have several GUI Menu items on the main GUI window and a progress bar.  During the progress bar is running, I'd like to browse the menu as normal and click on sub-item, which will pop up a new GUI window(e.g. "Settings" window). Most importantly, the ongoing program on the old background window is not interrupted, in this case, the progress bar is still going.

Does anyone have idea how to implement this? Thanks

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Hey,

when running the GUIOnEventMode option, polling the GUI while doing other stuff shouldn't be a problem.

As for not interrupting the main GUI, the only solution I ever found was to start a different .exe which creates your new GUI.

(or running the same .exe with command line switches)

You can still set the second GUI as a child window to the first one, even if it isn't running in the same process.

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altex,

Take a look at the Interrupting a running function tutorial in the Wiki - that may well be what you need. :)

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Take a look at the Interrupting a running function tutorial in the Wiki - that may well be what you need. :)

 

As far as I understood he wants to keep his progress bar in the main GUI loading while being in different function, this could be a pain to implement with the link you provided depending on how much the GUI should still be accessible.

Then again I don't know where you get your progress data from. Maybe you should also take a look at the AdLibRegister function.

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Hi M23,

Based on my understanding,  "Interrupt" means terminating an ongoing function by executing a new function. In my case, the ongoing function is drawing progress bar and new function would be showing a new window after clicking sub-item on the menu bar, (for example, the "settings" window.).  Radiance he got the point of my question that I want the progress bar still going even after the new "Setting" window is opened. In other words, this case is not exactly "interrupting a running function"

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