Delay EditChange while the user is still typing into SLE (search string)

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Delay EditChange while the user is still typing into SLE (search string)

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Thanks Robert, and Dick (and the others!) for the additional suggestions.
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Delay EditChange while the user is still typing into SLE (search string)

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jonhn wrote:maybe it was as long ago as 2001 I recall you posting this in the comp.lang.clipper.VO group!
Yeah, Karl-Heinz has been providing such solutions in the newsgroups/forums since more than 20 years ago! I remember I was so impressed about how he seemed to know absolutely everything in the Windows API and this triggered me to read tons and tons of help files so I could also be able to provide solutions like his! It payed off :)
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Delay EditChange while the user is still typing into SLE (search string)

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robert wrote:
And in the constructor

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SELF:lOwnerHasTimer := IsMethod ( SELF:Owner , #OnTimer )
And then check for field.

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IF SELF:lOwnerHasTimer
Robert
that's a very good idea !

thanks
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Delay EditChange while the user is still typing into SLE (search string)

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jonhn wrote:Thank you Karl-Heinz! This is exactly the thing I had in my dusty memory - maybe it was as long ago as 2001 I recall you posting this in the comp.lang.clipper.VO group!
You've made my day.
nope.

You can be assured that i wrote the code yesterday and not 20 years ago ;-)

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Delay EditChange while the user is still typing into SLE (search string)

Post by g.bunzel@domonet.de »

...and maybe it's better, to stop the timer first and then SEND(..) the notification to the owner. To not have more notifications - if the SEND-Method needs more time to be finished...

CASE oEvent:message == WM_TIMER

IF IsMethod ( SELF:Owner , #OnTimer )

SELF:StopTimer()

Send ( SELF:Owner , #OnTimer , SELF:NameSym )

ENDIF

ENDCASE

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