[Resolved] Monitoring status using a timer

[Arachnid13]

Hi

I have a project consisting of a form and a file i have made, the form acts as the user interface for the dll. The job of the dll is to pull some info from a database, use this information to request a URL from an HTTP server, and then create and send an XML request to the URL. This is all working 100% but as it takes a little while to perform these tasks i have created a public variable which changes as to the particular task the dll is performing (i.e. 0=idle, 1=accessing database etc etc). The problem is that i have set up a timer to change the contents of a text box when the variable changes, but the timer code will not run while one of the dll functions is being called, even though in the dll code i have put a doevents after each change of the status variable... is there another way of monitoring the variable that will work?

Thanks!