Simple event question

[Bonekrusher]

Hi,

I have a very simple question. I have an button click event that performs an ftp connection. This works great. I want an animated gif to display durring the process. So i put the following for the 1st step of the event:

Me.PictureBox1.Visible = True

But the gif doesnt become visable until after all code has been executed.

How do I get this to be visiable at the beggining of the event and back to Me.PictureBox1.Visible = false at the end of the event?

Thanks!

 

[vis781]

You could try..

Application.DoEvents

 

[Bonekrusher]

Hi thanks for the quik response.

I tried your suggestion, but no luck. I placed your code at the start of the event.

Where should I put it?

Thanks?

 

[vis781]

You could try placing it after the

Me.PictureBox1.Image.Visible = True

Though i'm not totally convinced it will work.

 

[Bonekrusher]

Thanks!
It works but the gif freezes.. do you why this happens

 

[.paul.]

if you have a do loop or something

do

''your code here
application.doevents

loop

it stops your code having exclusive priority, and frees resources to update display events

 

[Bonekrusher]

Thanks, that was the trick.