Pause and catch up?

Xojo Cloud
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Hi:

I am returning to my app from PayPal. Ideally I would like to display a page of information that pertains to what the user ordered, with perhaps a progress bar, while the app prepares a report and emails it to them. This can take a couple of minutes.

However, my app skips past the display, and goes right to preparing the report. All the user sees after returning from PayPal is a screen that says my app is loading. It continues to show this even after the report has been successfully emailed.

I am thinking that I somehow need to pause the program so that it can catch up with itself. I tried putting in a counter loop, and this did not help.

Any ideas?

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You should ideally spin that report task off in a separate process. You want to avoid long running tasks in web applications because it prevents any users from using the application, not just the user waiting for the report.

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With Phillip Z.'s suggestion, I looked for a control that didn’t require any action by the user. I tried the timer control and it did the trick. Thanks.