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Hi John,

The module size limitation isn't hard and fast, nor is it limited to any
specific version of Excel. In fact I don't think it's ever been officially
documented. However, it's pretty well recognized among professional Excel
developers that if you create code modules larger than 64KB you will very
likely run into problems.

By the way, I've also seen the problem with UserForms not immediately
recognizing controls added to them. I honestly have no idea why this
happens, but I don't think it's necessarily related to module size.

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"John Wilson" wrote in message
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Rob,

I would make sure that none of your code modules
exceeds 64KB in size and none of your UserForms contains more than 256
controls.

Is this a hard and fast limitation with Excel 2000???
I have a project with quite a number of UserForms and a lot of code (maybe
6,000 lines). Whenever I add a control to a userform (and there are less

than
256 controls per form) Excel will not recognise the control until I first

run
your
Code Cleaner (and thank you, it works like a charm) save, close and

reopen.
If I add a control, save, close and reopen without using Code Cleaner
it crashes when I try to open it.
I'll go back and check to see how large my modules are but
have you ever run into this type of problem before??
And thanks again for the Code Cleaner.

John


Rob Bovey wrote:

Hi Bret,

The first thing I'd suggest is to download my VBA Code Cleaner from

the
web site shown below. Run your project through this and see if it

doesn't
improve things. Next I would make sure that none of your code modules
exceeds 64KB in size and none of your UserForms contains more than 256
controls.

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Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP
Application Professionals
http://www.appspro.com/

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"Bret Holle" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I'm programming an Excel Add-in (developing under Windows 2000 SP4
running Office 2000 SR3) that consists of 56 user forms and 14

modules.
Occasionally, while doing further development of the Add-in, I'll

get
errors like "object invoked has disconnected from its clients" or

Excel
application errors. When I bring it back up, make the same changes

and
click Debug/Compile the compiler finds no errors. However, I'll get

the
exact same message. I can bring it back up, make the changes again

and
trace it, and it will crash on this line: "Call
basDatabase.DatabaseMain1" (or others like it <module.<sub/function
name). When I take the time to remove all of the module names from

the
sub and function calls, the Add-in is back to normal and I can

continue
development.

However, this also works in reverse. It will crash on the line "Call
DatabaseMain1" until I replace it with "Call

basDatabase.DatabaseMain1".
I just got done putting the module names back into the sub/function
calls (I don't know the exact number but it's at least 250 calls), and
the way it is now I can continue development until it whatever it is
happens again and I have to take the module names back out.

I need to know what would cause this problem. I don't know where to
start looking for the problem since the compiler says there's nothing
wrong, and VBA says that there are no references missing. My company

is
looking to release the Add-in to the public, but I'd like to know for
sure that the people who buy it won't run into the problem that I'm
having with the sub/function calls.

Any help or information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for you

time,

Bret