Hello all,
For games it is logical to respond to events but for business apps, where often data is manipulated in loops, we need to have some control over the UI to show the progress. In several programming languages a ‘forced UI Update’ call can be made to trigger the displayengine to refresh the contents of the visible controls. Creating such a function like ‘display:forceUserInterfaceUpdate()’ does not seem to be rocketscience to implement IMHO (but I have no clue!).
Please add this to the Corona wishlist, in the meantime I will set-up my code using callbacks and timers to exit loops and restart procedures so the UI can update its contents.
Thanx, Marc Verkade