fast updates to textbox?

[federico]

Hello I have an application that iterates through the messages of a mailbox.
The program does fine the job of moving messages that match a criteria. I
would like to add to the program the capablity of displaying a progress
window. Ideally, the progress window should have a textbox control that
display very fast the subject of each email it is examining. The user would
not be able to read the contents of the textbox, but he would be happy
knowing that the program is working.

I tried serveral combinations of suspendlayout, resumelayout, performlayout,
but nothing seem to work.

Any advice you could give me will be greatly appreciated.

federico

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federico,

Did you try calling the textbox's Refresh method after placing text into the
textbox?

Kerry Moorman
"federico" wrote:

Hello I have an application that iterates through the messages of a mailbox.
The program does fine the job of moving messages that match a criteria. I
would like to add to the program the capablity of displaying a progress
window. Ideally, the progress window should have a textbox control that
display very fast the subject of each email it is examining. The user would
not be able to read the contents of the textbox, but he would be happy
knowing that the program is working.

I tried serveral combinations of suspendlayout, resumelayout, performlayout,
but nothing seem to work.

Any advice you could give me will be greatly appreciated.

federico

[Trevor Benedict]

Fedrico,
Have you thought about a StatusBar control to display this as a Status.
Secondly, you could also think about Application.DoEvents and here is some
more food for thought http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000370.html

Regards,

Trevor Benedict
MCSD

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Hello I have an application that iterates through the messages of a
mailbox. The program does fine the job of moving messages that match a
criteria. I would like to add to the program the capablity of displaying a
progress window. Ideally, the progress window should have a textbox
control that display very fast the subject of each email it is examining.
The user would not be able to read the contents of the textbox, but he
would be happy knowing that the program is working.

I tried serveral combinations of suspendlayout, resumelayout,
performlayout, but nothing seem to work.

Any advice you could give me will be greatly appreciated.

federico

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

federico,

The do events does this job, however be aware that you are slowing your
program down.

The do events on one side and by painting on the other side. Painting is the
most time expensive part of almost every program.

Cor

[federico]

Thank you very much. Your advice is very helpfull

federico
"federico" <fe******@michosa.comwrote in message
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Hello I have an application that iterates through the messages of a
mailbox. The program does fine the job of moving messages that match a
criteria. I would like to add to the program the capablity of displaying a
progress window. Ideally, the progress window should have a textbox
control that display very fast the subject of each email it is examining.
The user would not be able to read the contents of the textbox, but he
would be happy knowing that the program is working.

I tried serveral combinations of suspendlayout, resumelayout,
performlayout, but nothing seem to work.

Any advice you could give me will be greatly appreciated.

federico