I wrote a program that performs various tasks. It is a MDI application.
An example is one of the forms has some labels and a button. When
button is clicked, the program combs through an access DB and makes
changes as needed. As it goes through, a counter is updated on the form
to let the user know things are working.

Question/Scenerio:
Everything is great but when I go to look at another program, say
netscape or winamp or whatever, I can not look at the application
again, it is frozen. Windows says program is not responding. It is
still working however and once it completes its tasks, I can view the
app again.

Am I doing too much in VB or am I missing something?

Any help is appreciated.

Whenever a VB Program is hard at work, you will want to strategically place
"DoEvents" Statements in the various loops.

DoEvents allows Windows to process other pending requests from other
applications.

I say strategically since this:

For i = 1 to 5
    for j = 1 to 1000000
       'Do Something which takes a while
    next
   Doevents
next

is much worse than this:

For i = 1 to 5
    for j = 1 to 1000000
       'Do Something which takes a while
      Doevents
    next
next

Consider how frequently these two examples will yield control with the
DoEvents Statemnt.

HTH

--
-Dick Christoph

http://www1.minn.net/~dchristo