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roquoonewbie
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14 years ago

EnableBackButton does not work unless AddButton is used

I think there is a bug with the roMessageDialog object. Specifically, I cannot get the back button event unless I also add a button to the dialog. I do not want to have any button on the dialog, b...
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renojim
Community Streaming Expert
14 years ago
You're basically giving the user 10ms to press the back button. You need to use an roTimespan object and check every 10ms if 10 seconds have passed. Each time through the loop you have to do a part/i] of the stuff that takes a while. If your stuff can't be broken up, then you don't have much choice but to do it all and put up a "please wait" message. I'll leave the details to the interested reader.

-JT