ProgressDialog not spinning

[Big JR]

In Activity_Create I have this code:

ProgressDialogShow("Loading...")
DoEvents
DoEvents
Activity.LoadLayout("main")
ProgressDialogHide

The layout as quite a few panels and views and takes a few seconds to load, hence the need for the progress dialog.

The progress dialog doesn't spin, presumably because until LoadLayout is finished it isn't getting updated.

How can I get the progress dialog to spin while the layout is loading? Or does it need to have a DoEvents incorporated into the LoadLayout routine?

 

[pluton]

It is late here in Croatia but why don't you try replace some function.
For example

Activity.LoadLayout("main")
ProgressDialogShow("Loading...")
DoEvents
DoEvents
ProgressDialogHide

 

[Big JR]

The second code won't do what is intended. It is intended that the progress dialog shows while the layout is loading so it has to start before loadLayout. There's no point in a progress dialog that just flashes up after the layout has loaded.

 

[vb1992]

What if you put it in.....

Sub globals
  ProgressDialogShow("Loading...")

and the first line in Activity.

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
   
   Activity.Invalidate

Does that help?

 

[Erel]

How large is your layout file? You can consider breaking it into several files.

 

[Big JR]

Thanks Erel. I've split the layout into separates, one for each panel with DoEvents in between each load.