Please Christian, read inside. Info for BackGrnd operations

eitang · Post by *eitang » 2012-04-13, 15:23 UTC

Hi Ch. Ghisler,

During long and multiple Copy/Delete/Move operations in the background, I sometimes forget which small window does what (<BG> I am a long time user, so relatively old <VBG>).

It would be really nice if by hovering over the bacground reduced window a 'Hint' showed up with legible text about the operation (like: "Copying *.jpg from d:\photos to j:\photos backup", or: "Deleting all *.bak from d:\delphi\Wincmd...)

eitang · Post by *eitang » 2012-04-24, 13:16 UTC

Two weeks already and not a single reaction! This deserves a kick-up...

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2012-04-24, 13:36 UTC

I think it may be really useful sometimes.

eitang · Post by *eitang » 2012-04-24, 13:54 UTC

Ah! Glad someone (and MVV from all TC users !!!) agrees with me <G>

Alexei · Post by *Alexei » 2012-04-25, 07:50 UTC

eitang wrote:Ah! Glad someone (and MVV from all TC users !!!) agrees with me <G>

you're certainly not alone, this seems to me very useful

eitang · Post by *eitang » 2012-04-27, 07:01 UTC

So,... Waiting for Christian's answer... <S>

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-04-27, 08:28 UTC

It would be nice, and it's already on my wish list! Unfortunately the background transfer manager and other background dialogs aren't Delphi forms (they are not thread-safe), but normal Windows dialogs. It's not done in 5 minutes to create such hint windows with only Windows methods. Therefore I have postponed it to a later version, sorry.

eitang · Post by *eitang » 2012-04-27, 09:34 UTC

Ah! Thank you Christian for your explanation. I hope the solution comes fast <s>. Being e D5 Developper myself, I understand the difficulty, but have no suggestion to make

Stefan2 · Post by *Stefan2 » 2012-04-27, 10:04 UTC

ghisler(Author) wrote:It would be nice, and it's already on my wish list!
Unfortunately the background transfer manager and other background
dialogs aren't Delphi forms (they are not thread-safe), but normal Windows
dialogs. It's not done in 5 minutes to create such hint windows with only
Windows methods. Therefore I have postponed it to a later version, sorry.

But TC could provide an delphi form (e.g. an optional popped-up window)
with an list off all running back ground jobs?

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-04-27, 13:53 UTC

Currently not - sometimes these job windows are created within the thread, which isn't possible with Delphi forms.