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So I had to add a delay (better said: sleep) in my code, so that after displaying a temporary status message, would revert back to it's previous message. Kind-a like a brief bleep showing a notification and then going back to where we left off.
Now the sleep() function has a little problem ... it's totally locks your application (Zzz mouse, or spinning ball) and the user can't really do anything.
With a neat little trick you can do this better;
procedure MyDelay(DelayTickCount: DWORD);
var
StartTickCount : DWORD;
begin
StartTickCount := GetTickCount;
while (GetTickCount < StartTickCount + DelayTickCount) and (not Application.Terminated) do
Application.ProcessMessages;
end;
So this function does NOT lock you user interface, but does wait with the next steps for "DelayTickCount" milliseconds.
Since the previous functions uses GetTickCount, which has its issues and GetTickCount64 appears a better choice, you may also want to consider the alternative below, which uses TDateTime instead, where we can set our delay in milliseconds (1000=1sec).
Note: uses the dateutils unit.
procedure MyDelay(milliSecondsDelay: int64);
var
stopTime : TDateTime;
begin
stopTime := IncMilliSecond(Now,milliSecondsDelay);
while (Now < stopTime) and (not Application.Terminated) do
Application.ProcessMessages;
end;
