KiXforms

[MACE1]

I am trying to use a progress bar in association with a timeout to check by PING whether a TARGET machine is present. I have tried a variety of combinations but it is the progress bar which seems to be the sticking point.
Would someone please point out A} why I get a blank bar whichever incramental form I use and b} how to trap an Esc if I need to....

[Mart]

Shouldn’t the last EndSelect be an Endif?

[MACE1]

That was a typo on the post, not the actual issue. Corrected makes no difference.
I am missing something on the 'progress' sheme which I have insufficient experience to detect.
________
FREE THEMES

[MACE1]

For a reason which escapes me, the TIMER was not working hence no progress.
Although less accurate, if I simply put the progress call within the ping loop it works - So now need to understand WHY the timer is kaput !

Also I can't get the 'Esc' breakout to activate : HELPPP

[MACE1]

The timer event is not firing and I really don't see why - Can anyone spot the issue ??

[benny69]

Before i dig into your code, i need to understand exactly what and how you want to accomplish it,

example,... i want a timer to kick off and in between every tick i want it to try to ping a machine until it reaches it.

or,... i want to kick off a timer and wait until it times out before it pings the machine.

[MACE1]

I want an independant timer to incrament the progress bar as a clock, regardless of any other function going on.
In this particular case I happen to be using ping, but rather than incramenting the progress bar between pings, which I currently have working, I am trying to make the timer work on its own irrespective of the ping timing etc.
I can invoke the progress bar OK but I can't see why the timer is not incramenting it !
I was also trying to trap an Esc key press in case I choose to abandon progress / main ping function.
________
No2 Vaporizer Reviews

[benny69]

so, you want it to continue to ping the machine over and over, at the same time you want the progress bar to count up and reset and count up and reset until you cancel the entire process with the 'esc' key?

[MACE1]

YES until the ping gets a response or times out in which case the timer and progress bar are closed automatically anyway.

To put it in context for you, this scriptlet is called when remoting to systems via a VPN which on initial connection can take 15 to 60+ seconds before dns will resolve remote system names. Rather than keep trying and failing to make a RDP connection or waiting an arbitary period before trying, I inserted the ping function to wait for a response before invoking RDP. It works well now, but the timer would make it far less 'jumpy' when pinging.
________
FAMILY 1 ENGINE

[benny69]

I don't think that it possable to do what you are wanting, kixforms can only do one thing at a time, and that creates a problem for what you are asking, you can not have a ping happening and at the same time ask the progress bar to change, i don't think that its a timer problem because it continues to tick but you cant ask it to kick off a process if it is already busy doing something else.

[MACE1]

Understand the logic, so I would then need to abandon the timer and try and get a more frequent update during PING.
How about:

[benny69]

i think you have the right idea, the quickness of the keyscan will be directly connected to the number of things you ask it to do before it checks for a keypress over and over.