How to update status bar during lengthly computation?

[jcsquire]

Here's an odd one: I'm performing a numeric analysis that takes almost a minute to run. I'd like to post feedback about how its progressing to a status bar. Unfortunately, the computation seems to cause my form to wait to update until after the computation finishes...so there's no user feedback at all!

Invalidate() doesn't work. There is no refresh() method on the statusbar object, but there is on the form itself...that works, but forcing every object on the screen to redraw itself when I just need one small text panel on the statusbar to redraw is a real time-waster.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

Thx,
- Jim

[shweta123]

why dont you put the code to update status bar in a function and call that function through timer?

just a thought?????

Shweta