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VB6 Activex exe

Hello, I have an active x exe made in vb6.

which does this:

Sub Test

for i = 1 to 10
sleep (2000) 'pause for 2 seconds
msgbox cstr(i)
next i

End Sub

I register this exe and add reference to it in ms excel.

I then reference the object using the CreateObject syntax and run the procedure 'Test'

I thought that being an exe, while this runs in excel, i will be still able to type in the cells (i.e. I thought that being an exe, it would run in its own memory space...) but i have to wait for the whole procedure from the exe to finish before i can do anything in excel.

How can I have the workbook multitasking, i.e typing in cells while this exe runs the procedure..?

Thanks

EDDYKT

You have to use timecontrol

ie

from your method

timer1.interval = 2000
timer1.enabled = true

In
Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
static i as integer

i = i + 1
if (i< 10 ) then msgbox cstr(i)

End Sub

etc

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ASKER

Hi, EDDYKT

I dont understand why i have to use the time control, if the activex was querying a database (so had no need for any timer control) and the query took 1 minute, im still not able to click into the excel cell while this is running. So it seems to have nothing to do with the timer control.

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ASKER

Ok, I will try this. Thanks.