Long VB Program - Windows Content Not Visible / Refreshed

[dumpsolver]

I have written a program (VB6) that times a lot of time to run. The problem is that whilst running the contents of the form (the window) are not visible / refreshed. I have tried the controls such as label.refresh and form.refresh but still it does not work. Ive read that Windows is supposed to take care of this. Please assist.

 

[mattKnight]

Firstly Dumpsolver Welcome to tek-tips. I see that this is your first post here. I hope that you will stay around and share youur knowledge with others.

I suggest that you look up DoEvents in MSDN. It "forces" VB to process other messages in the message queue. Placing this at the end of the loop (i assume that you are using) will allow the screen to update. As an effeciency note, you might only want to doevents every 5 or 10 time thorugh the loop.

i.e

begining of loop code
....


if intTimesThroughLoop mod 10 = 0 then
  Doevents
end if
intTimesThroughLoop = intTimesThroughLoop + 1

loop

May I also suggest that forum222 might have been a better place for this question.

Finally, there is a FAQ that perhaps you could read that will stand you well for getting the most out of these forums! Its faq222-2244



Take Care

Matt
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