ProgressBar [RESOLVED]

Know how display and show a ProgressBar working, but want it to show while other tasks are being done.

Specifically, am reading data from a Notepad file and writing parsed info to an Excel spreadsheet. How do I show the ProgressBar functioning while the reading and writing is going on? :confused:

depends a bit on how your code is built up....

VB Code:

'start loop
'read from file
'update progress
'doevents
'write to file
'update progress
'doevents
'end loop

something along those lines maybe :)

Aha.......so you're saying it depends on where my

ProgressBar1.Value = i
DoEvents


statements are made in my code?


And do I need to include a "Do Events" every time I update the ProgressBar1.Value?

you have to "feel your way" when it comes to how often you want to do the doevents

in order for the pb to view its updates, u will probably need it for each loop...

the doevents will slow down your code though :(

You can probably just use a ProgressBar1.Refresh call instead of calling DoEvents. But the prograssbar must somehow get processor time to redraw itself.

Issue resolved by updating ProgressBar1.Value during other processing .....and ProgressBar1.Refresh was just the ticket! ....works like a charm

Thanks to all who responded.