Ahh. Thanks for the link. I come from the old DOS C days and I can't bring myself to make a function call without parens. I was trying to use: "DoEvents()" and was getting an error.
According to the article you reference you don't use the "()". Sorry for the newbie mistake. :(
And the...
Whoops! I have one more question on this. I've setup my main form with a status label. I update that directly and have killed my 2nd status form.
Problem is the status text won't update on the main form. I've tried:
' update status display
frmMain.lblStatusMsg.Caption =...
Thanks so much for the reply. For some reason my code just to my error routine right when it hits this line of code.
frmStatus.Show vbModeless
I suspect it is related to your point about a modal form starting a modeless one. I'll have to do some research and see what's up with that some time...
I have an Excel VBA based conversion app. A conversion settings form (A) pops on startup. I change some settings and click a <Start Conversion> button to start the conversion process. The conversion works fine, but I want to add a status dialog to tell me where it is in the process.
I added...
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