Progress bar update

[ctiwari]

Hi,

I am using a progress bar to display the status of some data operations that I am performing (reading data from an access database, calculating certain fields and then writing the output to a CSV file). However, after the first block on the progressbar, the screen fails to refresh and seems to freeze.

I tried using a form.invalidate function to force a screen refresh, but I don't know if that is a correct thing to do?

Any suggestions will be most helpful

Thanks,

Chet

 

[SHelton]

Assuming that there is some sort of loop doing the hard work behind the scenes, insert an Application.DoEvents to allow the application to process other events that are queued up (i.e. the repainting of the progress bar).

If you wanted to be really flashy, you could execute either the working code or the progress bar update on a seperate thread, although the overhead and complexity of managing threads can sometimes outweigh the benefit...