Try again.

Try this approach,

Create a userform with the 'splash' details
Instead of running the macro, load the form and have the form run the macro
in it's Activate event.
When the macro completes, unload the form programmatically.

Something like

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
myMacro
Unload Me
End Sub


--

HTH

Bob Phillips
... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)

"Gary Phillips" wrote in message
...
Okay, I've been tasked with putting a "loading splash screen" on the
screen while a macro works in the background (this macro could take 30-45
seconds). So I created a simple dialog box and have it show itself while the
macro is loading. Once it finishes I have it hide itself but it doesn't
work. (Box1.Hide) Instead, the user has to click the x button to close the
dialog box.

How can I make the dialog box close itself?

Okay, I've got it working except that when it loads the splash screen form it doesn't show the label. The actual body of the form is all white. Why isn't it loading the label on the form (that says the text "Loading...") Any ideas? (I even set ScreenUpdating to TRUE and that still didn't fix it.)

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Try again.

Try this approach,

Create a userform with the 'splash' details
Instead of running the macro, load the form and have the form run the macro
in it's Activate event.
When the macro completes, unload the form programmatically.

Something like

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
myMacro
Unload Me
End Sub


--

HTH

Bob Phillips
... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)

"Gary Phillips" wrote in message
...
Okay, I've been tasked with putting a "loading splash screen" on the
screen while a macro works in the background (this macro could take 30-45
seconds). So I created a simple dialog box and have it show itself while the
macro is loading. Once it finishes I have it hide itself but it doesn't
work. (Box1.Hide) Instead, the user has to click the x button to close the
dialog box.

How can I make the dialog box close itself?

I f your form is named MyForm, then:

Load MyForm

will load your form into memory.

MyForm.Show

loads your form into memory (if it hasn't been already) and displays it
also.

MyForm.Hide

hides your form but keeps it in memory.

Unload MyForm

hides your form (if it's being displayed) and also unloads it from memory.

HTH.

-gk-



"Gary Phillips" wrote in message
...
Okay, here's a stupid question. How do I load the form now? I tried to
just Label1.Show but it didn't work.

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Try again.

Try this approach,

Create a userform with the 'splash' details
Instead of running the macro, load the form and have the form run the
macro
in it's Activate event.
When the macro completes, unload the form programmatically.

Something like

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
myMacro
Unload Me
End Sub


--

HTH

Bob Phillips
... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)

"Gary Phillips" wrote in
message
...
Okay, I've been tasked with putting a "loading splash screen" on the
screen while a macro works in the background (this macro could take
30-45
seconds). So I created a simple dialog box and have it show itself while
the
macro is loading. Once it finishes I have it hide itself but it doesn't
work. (Box1.Hide) Instead, the user has to click the x button to close
the
dialog box.

How can I make the dialog box close itself?

Try setting the 'Showmodal' property of the form to False, providing yo
are not on 97

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Gary,

precede the macro call with

Me.Repaint

--

HTH

Bob Phillips
... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)

"Gary Phillips" wrote in message
...
Okay, here's a stupid question. How do I load the form now? I tried to
just Label1.Show but it didn't work.

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Try again.

Try this approach,

Create a userform with the 'splash' details
Instead of running the macro, load the form and have the form run the
macro
in it's Activate event.
When the macro completes, unload the form programmatically.

Something like

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
myMacro
Unload Me
End Sub


--

HTH

Bob Phillips
... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)

"Gary Phillips" wrote in
message
...
Okay, I've been tasked with putting a "loading splash screen" on the
screen while a macro works in the background (this macro could take
30-45
seconds). So I created a simple dialog box and have it show itself while
the
macro is loading. Once it finishes I have it hide itself but it doesn't
work. (Box1.Hide) Instead, the user has to click the x button to close
the
dialog box.

How can I make the dialog box close itself?