Re: do pop up boxes stop all events?

On Sep 18, 12:24 pm, "Mike Williams" <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I am developing a data acquisition system that takes in
real-time data and displays it. It seems that pop-up boxes
(Msgbox, Commondialog) stops all other processing. If
I leave one up too long, the my processing gets way behind
and has to play catch-up.

If you display a standard VB MsgBox when your code is running in the VB IDE
then Timers and other events will be stopped (although you can get around
that problem using the API MsgBox function instead) but there should be no
problem when your code is run as a compiled exe, where Timers and various
other events will still work fine while the dialog is being displayed and
only the code in the Sub that displayed the MsgBox will be halted.

I think that can't be true, since calls to my public sub (a different
sub) are also halted. But timer events work fine.

How are
you collecting and displaying your data?

Mike


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