Hi

I have an OrderFrm and a PrintFrm.

From the OrderFrm I call the following buttons defined in PrintFrm:
e.g.

PrintReport1BtnClick(Sender);
PrintReport2BtnClick(Sender);
PrintReport3BtnClick(Sender);
PrintReport4BtnClick(Sender);

I am using a TBrowser to call an html file from each of the above buttons.

However only the last seems to execute

The ones before the last don't appear to fire !

Q. How do I ensure that all 4 buttons fire and do what they are supposed to do?

(I only seem to be able to execute one of the buttons at any one time but not all four.)

best regards

Kamran

On 12/19/2017 12:57 PM, kamran wrote:
> I am using a TBrowser to call an html file from each of the above buttons.

Can you clarify what this means exactly in terms of what takes place ?


> However only the last seems to execute

This works fine here with blocking operations (each button logging
something to multi line edit).


Sounds on the surface like an async operation issue :- button1 calls
browser load which is async so control returns right away and then
button 2 gets called right away etc,

Would need to understand better what those buttons do to comment further.

Raul

Hi Raul

1. So each button has code like this:

click code for ReportBtn1:

PrintBrowser.Url:='http://www.myweb.com:8080/reports/report1.html?FileName='+reportname1;

click code for ReportBtn2:

PrintBrowser.Url:='http://www.myweb.com:8080/reports/report2.html?FileName='+reportname2;

etc..

2. The report1.html, report2.html files read a text file using javascript and then send it to a printer for printing.

Hope that helps. If you need further info please advise.

Thanks

Kamran


Raul wrote:

On 12/19/2017 12:57 PM, kamran wrote:
> I am using a TBrowser to call an html file from each of the above buttons.

Can you clarify what this means exactly in terms of what takes place ?


> However only the last seems to execute

This works fine here with blocking operations (each button logging
something to multi line edit).


Sounds on the surface like an async operation issue :- button1 calls
browser load which is async so control returns right away and then
button 2 gets called right away etc,

Would need to understand better what those buttons do to comment further.

Raul

On 12/19/2017 2:17 PM, kamran wrote:
> 1. So each button has code like this:
>
> click code for ReportBtn1:
>
> PrintBrowser.Url:='http://www.myweb.com:8080/reports/report1.html?FileName='+reportname1;

This is an async operation - your EWB code continues to run but the
actual URL has not been loaded into yet.

So this would be similar to just setting the URL 4 times in a row
without letting browser to load anything so you end up with last URL
loading only.

Best suggestion i can make is to change this logic and rely on browser
onLoad events to proceed to next step.

Others might have better ideas but somethign simple could be this
(actual implementation might be bit more complex based on your app logic):

1. create a stringlist in your report form

2. create a "browser loading" boolean flag on the printing form

3. when you need to load a URL you would do following
> if "browser loading" is false then you set it to true and assign URL
to briwser
> if false you add url to the stringlist

4. whenever browser OnLoad fires it can check the stringlist
> if there is a URL it would remove it and assign to URL
> once stringlist is empty it can clear the "browser loading"


Raul

Thanks Raul - I will try that.

Cheers !

Kamran

Raul wrote:

On 12/19/2017 2:17 PM, kamran wrote:
> 1. So each button has code like this:
>
> click code for ReportBtn1:
>
> PrintBrowser.Url:='http://www.myweb.com:8080/reports/report1.html?FileName='+reportname1;

This is an async operation - your EWB code continues to run but the
actual URL has not been loaded into yet.

So this would be similar to just setting the URL 4 times in a row
without letting browser to load anything so you end up with last URL
loading only.

Best suggestion i can make is to change this logic and rely on browser
onLoad events to proceed to next step.

Others might have better ideas but somethign simple could be this
(actual implementation might be bit more complex based on your app logic):

1. create a stringlist in your report form

2. create a "browser loading" boolean flag on the printing form

3. when you need to load a URL you would do following
> if "browser loading" is false then you set it to true and assign URL
to briwser
> if false you add url to the stringlist

4. whenever browser OnLoad fires it can check the stringlist
> if there is a URL it would remove it and assign to URL
> once stringlist is empty it can clear the "browser loading"


Raul

Hi Raul

Could you kindly clarify:

I don't understand at what point the onLoad of a TBrowser is triggered.

Is it triggered when a TBrowser is created OR when a URL is assigned to it ? OR  at some other point ?

So depending on this,  am I not better to create the TBrowser on the fly when i need it and then
assign the URL to ensure that it gets fired every time.

Perhaps I have misunderstood this.

Thanks


Kamran

kamran wrote:

> I don't understand at what point the onLoad of a TBrowser is triggered.
>
> Is it triggered when a TBrowser is created OR when a URL is assigned to it ? OR  at some other point ?

It happens when the page that the URL is set to is actually finished loading.

So, you have a TBrowser. It is empty.

You set the URL in your code, and your code keeps running.

When your code stops doing anything, the TBrowser URL is actioned and the request is sent to the server.

Some time passes while the internet passes your request. Your code is not doing anything. The server is awaking from its slumber.

The content for the TBrowser starts to arrive.

The content for the TBrowser completes and is ready.

The OnLoad event fires so you can do the next part of your actions, and load something else, or whatever you want.

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Matthew Jones

Thanks Matthew

That's very helpful to understand.

Cheers

Kamran

"Matthew Jones" wrote:

kamran wrote:

> I don't understand at what point the onLoad of a TBrowser is triggered.
>
> Is it triggered when a TBrowser is created OR when a URL is assigned to it ? OR  at some other point ?

It happens when the page that the URL is set to is actually finished loading.

So, you have a TBrowser. It is empty.

You set the URL in your code, and your code keeps running.

When your code stops doing anything, the TBrowser URL is actioned and the request is sent to the server.

Some time passes while the internet passes your request. Your code is not doing anything. The server is awaking from its slumber.

The content for the TBrowser starts to arrive.

The content for the TBrowser completes and is ready.

The OnLoad event fires so you can do the next part of your actions, and load something else, or whatever you want.

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Matthew Jones

Hi Raul

So based on your  suggestion  is this code logic correct ?

Global:

BrowserLoading:=False;
AllComplete:=False;
URLList.Add(PrintBrowser.URL:='1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');
URLList.Add(PrintBrowser.URL:='2xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');
URLList.Add(PrintBrowser.URL:='3xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');


ReportBtnClick:

  If (NOT BrowserLoading) AND (NOT AllComplete) then
  begin
    BrowserLoading:=True;
    PrintBrowser.URL:=URLList[0];
  end;

OnLoad:
  URLList.Delete[0];
  BrowserLoading:=False;

  // process more....
  PrintBrowser.URL:=PrintBrowser.URL:=URLList[0];

  if URLList.Count = 0  then AllComplete:=True;


Or Have I misunderstood something !


Cheers


Kamran


Raul wrote:

On 12/19/2017 2:17 PM, kamran wrote:
> 1. So each button has code like this:
>
> click code for ReportBtn1:
>
> PrintBrowser.Url:='http://www.myweb.com:8080/reports/report1.html?FileName='+reportname1;

This is an async operation - your EWB code continues to run but the
actual URL has not been loaded into yet.

So this would be similar to just setting the URL 4 times in a row
without letting browser to load anything so you end up with last URL
loading only.

Best suggestion i can make is to change this logic and rely on browser
onLoad events to proceed to next step.

Others might have better ideas but somethign simple could be this
(actual implementation might be bit more complex based on your app logic):

1. create a stringlist in your report form

2. create a "browser loading" boolean flag on the printing form

3. when you need to load a URL you would do following
> if "browser loading" is false then you set it to true and assign URL
to briwser
> if false you add url to the stringlist

4. whenever browser OnLoad fires it can check the stringlist
> if there is a URL it would remove it and assign to URL
> once stringlist is empty it can clear the "browser loading"


Raul

kamran wrote:

> So based on your  suggestion  is this code logic correct ?

Looks okay to me. What exactly are you loading though - it doesn't seem to make sense right now as the browser will rapidly change and not give the user a chance to see what is shown. That may be fine of course...

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Matthew Jones