jimatqsi  1,277
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Okay, I bet this is something simple ... I'm running through a pair of loops and I want to show my progress as I go. The outer loop advances through the customer table, the inner loop advances through product classes. Each time I advance to a new customer, I set me!lblCustomer. Caption to be the customer ID, and each time I advance a product class I set me!lblClass.Cap tion to equal the product class. The trouble is, nothing shows in these captions until the very end, after I have displayed my "Done" message. However, if I use the debugger and stop in the loops, the captions display as they should.
I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions.
Jim
Here's my code. It doesn't matter whether grpActionType = 1, 2, or 3, it behaves the same way. 6 2218 
Hi. Access takes a relatively lazy approach to screen refresh, so when you change your caption within the loop you should use me.repaint to force a screen refresh (not me.refresh - commented out in line 14, 33 etc).
There are 98 lines listed in your code, of which only a small number are really relevant to your problem. It would certainly help us to read your post more easily if you could simply excerpt the relevant lines instead of posting it all, interesting though it is!
-Stewart
Try using Me.Repaint instead of the Me.Refresh (that you have commented out). Here is the MS Help file on Repaint:
Repaint Method
See AlsoApplies ToExampleSpecif icsThe Repaint method completes any pending screen updates for a specified form. When performed on a form, the Repaint method also completes any pending recalculations of the form's controls.
expression.Repa int
expression Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.
Remarks
Microsoft Access sometimes waits to complete pending screen updates until it finishes other tasks. With the Repaint method, you can force immediate repainting of the controls on the specified form. You can use the Repaint method:
When you change values in a number of fields. Unless you force a repaint, Microsoft Access might not display the changes immediately, especially if other fields, such as those in an expression in a calculated control, depend on values in the changed fields.
When you want to make sure that a form displays data in all of its fields. For example, fields containing OLE objects often don't display their data immediately after you open a form.
This method doesn't cause a requery of the database, nor does it show new or changed records in the form's underlying record source. You can use the Requery method to requery the source of data for the form or one of its controls.
Notes
Don't confuse the Repaint method with the Refresh method, or with the Refresh command on the Records menu. The Refresh method and Refresh command show changes you or other users have made to the underlying record source for any of the currently displayed records in forms and datasheets. The Repaint method simply updates the screen when repainting has been delayed while Microsoft Access completes other tasks.
The Repaint method differs from the Echo method in that the Repaint method forces a single immediate repaint, while the Echo method turns repainting on or off.
Example
The following example uses the Repaint method to repaint a form when the form receives the focus:
Private Sub Form_Activate()
Me.Repaint
End Sub
Regards,
Scott
Beat me to it, Stewart! Good on you :-)
Regards,
Scott
And , of course, it may simply be that the loop is executing too quickly for the human eye to register the changes in the label caption!
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Thanks very much to all who replied, me.repaint did the trick. :)
You're quite welcome! Glad to be able to help.
Regards,
Scott
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