timer

[fmardani]

Hi everyone,
While a process is running I would like the statusbar1.text to blink on shwing a message such as "Processing..."

I have two timers. Timer 1 is set to 1000 interval and timer 2 to 500 interval
both are enabled.

while debugging I can see that they are both been read but the data does not get displayed may be it is because there is no time for the statusbar1 to be refreshed. And I believe I may be able to use something like doevents. but doevents does not work in vb.net ?
Any ideas?
Thanks

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
StatusBar1.Text = "Processing Data. Please wait..."
End Sub

Private Sub Timer2_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer2.Tick
StatusBar1.Text = ""
End Sub

[fmardani]

It still does not work...
I have the following in the code

The property, enabled for the timer is set to false, the interval is 500


'Run the process as a separate thread...
Private t As New Thread(AddressOf Me.PopulateExcel)

Private Sub btnExcelStrategies_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnExcelStrategies.Click
t.Start() 'populates excel in a separate thread, to prevent locking...
End Sub

private sub PopulateExcel()

'''populates excel cells... this takes about 10 minutes to complete...

End Sub

Private Sub EnableTimer()
Timer1.Enabled = True
End Sub

Private Sub DisableTimer()
Timer1.Enabled = False
StatusBar1.Text = ""
End Sub

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
Application.DoEvents()

If StatusBar1.Text = "" Then
StatusBar1.Text = "Processing Data..."
Else
StatusBar1.Text = ""
End If
End Sub