CopyBlock() bug/inconvenience

[Carlo Hogeveen]

Sammy,

I am working on an improved version of eList, and run into a TSE inconvenience, which may be a bug.
When doing a CopyBlock() inside the _AFTER_NONEDIT_COMMAND_ hook, CopyBlock() does not show its progress.
Even for a gigabyte buffer this only takes seconds of apparent inaction, but a fix would be user-friendly.
I created a test macro which demonstrates the problem:
https://ecarlo.nl/tse/DemosAndTests.html#Test_CopyBlock

Carlo

[S.E. Mitchell]

Yeah, right now, the code specifically forbids messages displaying
when QueryEditState() returns non-zero.
There are many parts to the editor that are possibly not reentrant,
and message displaying is one of them.
Inside your hook, can you run QueryEditState() and let me know what
the value is?
Based on that, I may be able to loosen up the restriction so that the
message is displayed.
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[Carlo Hogeveen]

QueryEditState() is 0x60, which according to my notes means that the states _STATE_POPWINDOW_ and _STATE_PROCESS_IN_WINDOW_ are true.

Obviously not breaking the editor is more important than freezing it without a message for some seconds.

Carlo

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[S.E. Mitchell]

I'm going through the code, and I think I can relax the restriction
for all but _STATE_WARN_.
I will play with it and let you know.
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[Carlo Hogeveen]

Sammy,

For your information,
When optimizing the next version of my eList tool for speed, I was able to optimize the part away that did a copy of the whole source buffer using CopyBlock().
So CopyBlock() not showing a progress indicator from inside the _AFTER_NONEDIT_COMMAND_ hook is no longer an issue for this specific macro.

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