rec.autos.simulators

Startup takes a long time?

Richard S Becket

Startup takes a long time?

by Richard S Becket » Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:48:29

Chaps,

When someone starts my script on a slow pc, they get a black DOS window for
a while. This then minimises, (because of Tk, and I haven't found a way of
stopping this, yet), I then open it, and print "Loading, please wait...".

Unfortunately, on very slow machines, there is quite a long time with just
the black DOS window, and nothing telling the user that the script is
working. This has led to problems, because they assume that nothing is
happening.

I assume that the long pause is because I've used perlapp to create a
freestanding executable, and the script is loading up all the modules that
I've used.

Is there any quick way to put up something that will pacify a Stupid User
(TM)?

Thanks.

R.

Mike Beaucham

Startup takes a long time?

by Mike Beaucham » Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:41:38

Could have been a LOT worse :)

Mike
http://mikebeauchamp.com



> AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!!

> Oh well, it's taken me well over 10 years to finally make _that_ mistake!
> (Wrong newsgroup).

> Sorry :-)

> R.



> > Chaps,

> > When someone starts my script on a slow pc, they get a black DOS window
> for
> > a while. This then minimises, (because of Tk, and I haven't found a way
of
> > stopping this, yet), I then open it, and print "Loading, please
wait...".

> > Unfortunately, on very slow machines, there is quite a long time with
just
> > the black DOS window, and nothing telling the user that the script is
> > working. This has led to problems, because they assume that nothing is
> > happening.

> > I assume that the long pause is because I've used perlapp to create a
> > freestanding executable, and the script is loading up all the modules
that
> > I've used.

> > Is there any quick way to put up something that will pacify a Stupid
User
> > (TM)?

> > Thanks.

> > R.

Dave Henri

Startup takes a long time?

by Dave Henri » Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:35:30

  Wrong newsgroup?  Dang I guess I can't tell ya how to fix it then...
dave henrie


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Eldre

Startup takes a long time?

by Eldre » Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:37:46



>Could have been a LOT worse :)

>Mike
>http://mikebeauchamp.com



>> AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!!

>> Oh well, it's taken me well over 10 years to finally make _that_ mistake!
>> (Wrong newsgroup).

>> Sorry :-)

So we've SEEN...<g>

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