Can i give time delays

[Former Member]

I want to have a screen that displays different status icons after every 10 seconds. I have the code for changing the icons but i donot know how to create a delay before the icons change.

Can anyone help??

[Former Member]

can u copy your code on forum.

Thanks

[Former Member]

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REPORT ZBC400_13_STATUS.

• icon_name holds the name of the icon from the icon table

• icon_text holds the text message recieved from the icon table

• status_icon is the icon in the screen

DATA: status_icon TYPE icons-text,

icon_name(20) TYPE c,

icon_text(10) TYPE c.

• Workarea type icon

DATA: WA_ICON TYPE ICON.

• Screen 9000 has just the status_icon

CALL SCREEN 9000.

• PBO

MODULE set_icon OUTPUT.

• One icon is taken from the database everytime and put on the status

• icon for 20 rows in icon table

SELECT NAME MESSAGE FROM ICON INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF WA_ICON.

IF SY-DBCNT > 20.

EXIT.

ENDIF.

• Assigning retrieved value from table to local variable

icon_name = WA_ICON-NAME.

icon_text = WA_ICON-MESSAGE.

CALL FUNCTION 'ICON_CREATE'

EXPORTING

name = icon_name

text = icon_text

info = 'Status'

add_stdinf = 'X'

IMPORTING

result = status_icon

EXCEPTIONS

icon_not_found = 1

outputfield_too_short = 2

OTHERS = 3.

*Time delay.

DO 1000 TIMES.

DO 1000 TIMES.

DO 10 TIMES.

ENDDO.

ENDDO.

ENDDO.

*THe change is made to reflect on the screen

MODIFY SCREEN.

ENDSELECT.

ENDMODULE.

This program has a problem.

THe delay is set in the PBO so all processing ends before screen is displayed.

Any solution?

[Former Member]

There's a few ways of implementing "timers" - the newer ones are cl_gui_timer or the ABAP "wait", but earlier code often used calls to functions RZL_SLEEP or ENQUE_SLEEP.

But if you take a look at the sample code I posted in:

there's an example there of having an autorefreshed list that might help you along your way... the trick being to do an RFC call in a new task and perform the auto-refresh when the results come back.

Jonathan

[Former Member]

yah...if this is u r requirement, then inorder to give a time delay , just run any dummy code like counting upto 100000 times...etc etc into u r code

[jaideeps]

hi prakash,

for using timers use this Fm

CALL FUNCTION 'SWE_CD_TST_DELAY'

EXPORTING

DELAY = '10'.

OR you can go for CL_GUI_TIMER

thanks

jaideep

*reward points for evry useful answers

[former_member196299]

hi ,

Try using SAPGUI_PROGRESS_INDICATOR in your code for giving some time delays and the user is able to see the program progressin the mean time .

Regards,

Ranjita

[Former Member]

Hi Prakash

For time delay use WAIT statement

e.g. wait n seconds.

n : no of seconds you want to be delayed