Checking text file I get "Not Responding"

[Basil Fenix]

I check data from a text file with a mdb Database using a progressbar and
changing the Caption by % to indicate to the user what is happening.The file
is large and takes quite a while. The problem though is that if the user
clicks on the form everything freezes and I get "Not Responding". It is
still doing the check because if you let it continue it finishes running.
Thanks
Basil

[Vince Morgan]

"Basil Fenix" <ba***@iafrica.com> wrote in message
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I check data from a text file with a mdb Database using a progressbar and
changing the Caption by % to indicate to the user what is happening.The file is large and takes quite a while. The problem though is that if the user
clicks on the form everything freezes and I get "Not Responding". It is
still doing the check because if you let it continue it finishes running.
Thanks
Basil

The thread is too busy doing all that file reading etc. Put "DoEvents" at
an
appropriate place in your code. Possibly in the progressbar routine.
That will allow the thread to check for user interaction with the GUI and
to respond to the interactions.
HTH
Vince Morgan

[Basil Fenix]

Thanks working like a dream.Cannot beleive I am so stupid.
Thanks again
Basil
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"Basil Fenix" <ba***@iafrica.com> wrote in message
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I check data from a text file with a mdb Database using a progressbar and
changing the Caption by % to indicate to the user what is happening.The

file

is large and takes quite a while. The problem though is that if the user
clicks on the form everything freezes and I get "Not Responding". It is
still doing the check because if you let it continue it finishes running.
Thanks
Basil

The thread is too busy doing all that file reading etc. Put "DoEvents" at
an
appropriate place in your code. Possibly in the progressbar routine.
That will allow the thread to check for user interaction with the GUI and
to respond to the interactions.
HTH
Vince Morgan

[Steve Gerrard]

"Basil Fenix" <ba***@iafrica.com> wrote in message
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Thanks working like a dream.Cannot beleive I am so stupid.
Thanks again
Basil

Not so. Stupid would be not asking...

[Vince Morgan]

"Basil Fenix" <ba***@iafrica.com> wrote in message
news:t4********************@is.co.za...

Thanks working like a dream.Cannot beleive I am so stupid.
Thanks again
Basil

Your welcome Basil.
Don't worry, if I hadn't done the same myself at some
point I probably wouldn't have recognised the prob. We
all make mistakes like that from time to time ;)
Regards,
Vince Morgan

[Michael Warner]

Send me the source to see what you've got

Basil Fenix wrote:

I check data from a text file with a mdb Database using a progressbar and
changing the Caption by % to indicate to the user what is happening.The file
is large and takes quite a while. The problem though is that if the user
clicks on the form everything freezes and I get "Not Responding". It is
still doing the check because if you let it continue it finishes running.
Thanks
Basil