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As my macro begins to execute, I need to display a pop-up window that simply
says "One moment please..." When the macro is near the end of its execution, I then need to remove the pop-up window. Unless there is a better way to accomplish this, I was thinking of using a MsgBox, except I don't want (or need) the MsgBox to contain any buttons. But I don't know how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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No can do on the message box... My preference for this kind of thing is to
have a sheet with "Processing... One moment please." in big bold letters. Switch to this sheet at the beginning of your macro and back to your original sheet at the end. Doing this you can get fancy with the colours, add any extra text you might want and even add some check boxes that get checked as specific sections of the macro complete to give the user the feeling that something productive is going on... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Bob" wrote: As my macro begins to execute, I need to display a pop-up window that simply says "One moment please..." When the macro is near the end of its execution, I then need to remove the pop-up window. Unless there is a better way to accomplish this, I was thinking of using a MsgBox, except I don't want (or need) the MsgBox to contain any buttons. But I don't know how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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I don't know of any MsgBox way that has no buttons or won't awat closing
before proceeding. One way developers usually handle it is to create a UserForm as the popup dialog. The VBA code shows the userform. The userform_Activate code calls further code to run. When the code is done, it Unloads the form. My preference is to use the StatusBar due to it's non-invasiveness. One of the downsides to using a form is it can get in the way of stepping through your code because of its modality. "Bob" wrote in message ... As my macro begins to execute, I need to display a pop-up window that simply says "One moment please..." When the macro is near the end of its execution, I then need to remove the pop-up window. Unless there is a better way to accomplish this, I was thinking of using a MsgBox, except I don't want (or need) the MsgBox to contain any buttons. But I don't know how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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Jim,
Thanks for the suggestion. I was really hoping to be able to display some sort of a pop-up box, but your method is one that I didn't think of. Thanks again, Bob "Jim Thomlinson" wrote: No can do on the message box... My preference for this kind of thing is to have a sheet with "Processing... One moment please." in big bold letters. Switch to this sheet at the beginning of your macro and back to your original sheet at the end. Doing this you can get fancy with the colours, add any extra text you might want and even add some check boxes that get checked as specific sections of the macro complete to give the user the feeling that something productive is going on... -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Bob" wrote: As my macro begins to execute, I need to display a pop-up window that simply says "One moment please..." When the macro is near the end of its execution, I then need to remove the pop-up window. Unless there is a better way to accomplish this, I was thinking of using a MsgBox, except I don't want (or need) the MsgBox to contain any buttons. But I don't know how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:16:01 -0700, Bob
wrote: As my macro begins to execute, I need to display a pop-up window that simply just make a small form, close it after a few seconds , I do this as splash screen on the opening of some of my sheets... |
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John,
Thanks for the suggestion! I will give it a try. Bob "John in Wembley" wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:16:01 -0700, Bob wrote: As my macro begins to execute, I need to display a pop-up window that simply just make a small form, close it after a few seconds , I do this as splash screen on the opening of some of my sheets... |
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Thanks for the suggestion! I will give it a try.
Bob "-" wrote: I don't know of any MsgBox way that has no buttons or won't awat closing before proceeding. One way developers usually handle it is to create a UserForm as the popup dialog. The VBA code shows the userform. The userform_Activate code calls further code to run. When the code is done, it Unloads the form. My preference is to use the StatusBar due to it's non-invasiveness. One of the downsides to using a form is it can get in the way of stepping through your code because of its modality. "Bob" wrote in message ... As my macro begins to execute, I need to display a pop-up window that simply says "One moment please..." When the macro is near the end of its execution, I then need to remove the pop-up window. Unless there is a better way to accomplish this, I was thinking of using a MsgBox, except I don't want (or need) the MsgBox to contain any buttons. But I don't know how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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i make a userform with only a label on it, i center it and make it as wide as
the form. then when my first macro starts i use something like this: With UserForm1 .Caption = "Processing Scanner Data For " & Format(Worksheets("Date").Range("B2"), "MMMM dd yyyy") .Show End With DoEvents then, when the 2nd macro i called: UserForm1.Label1.Caption = "Adding Decipher Sheet Information" DoEvents when the 3rd macro is called: UserForm1.Label1.Caption = "Summarizing Data By Line Number" DoEvents and when the code is done: Unload UserForm1 -- Gary "Bob" wrote in message ... John, Thanks for the suggestion! I will give it a try. Bob "John in Wembley" wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:16:01 -0700, Bob wrote: As my macro begins to execute, I need to display a pop-up window that simply just make a small form, close it after a few seconds , I do this as splash screen on the opening of some of my sheets... |
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when i use a form to display status and need to step through the code, i just
type unload userform1 in the immediate window. most of my clients don't know what the status bar is for, so they never look at it. just my way of doing it. -- Gary <- wrote in message ... I don't know of any MsgBox way that has no buttons or won't awat closing before proceeding. One way developers usually handle it is to create a UserForm as the popup dialog. The VBA code shows the userform. The userform_Activate code calls further code to run. When the code is done, it Unloads the form. My preference is to use the StatusBar due to it's non-invasiveness. One of the downsides to using a form is it can get in the way of stepping through your code because of its modality. "Bob" wrote in message ... As my macro begins to execute, I need to display a pop-up window that simply says "One moment please..." When the macro is near the end of its execution, I then need to remove the pop-up window. Unless there is a better way to accomplish this, I was thinking of using a MsgBox, except I don't want (or need) the MsgBox to contain any buttons. But I don't know how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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Don't get me wrong, I like the userform idea because it's obvious and kind
of cool. However, I had the very unpleasant task of inheriting a humongous project from a developer who never got it to work. There were tens of thousands of lines of code in it, and no code-commenting. The developer tied *everything* into a modal userform with incrementing status lines, emulating the look and feel of Windows. Great, but first of all, the project didn't work. Worse, if I made the form non-modal, or tried to disable it, NONE of the code would work. It was completely dependent on the form. I have never experienced a client that didn't know what a status bar was for. Office apps use them all the time. I agree they are not as obvious as forms, but there is certainly much less overhead in statusbars then userforms. Just my take. (and I am not inexperienced). "Gary Keramidas" <GKeramidasATmsn.com wrote in message ... when i use a form to display status and need to step through the code, i just type unload userform1 in the immediate window. most of my clients don't know what the status bar is for, so they never look at it. just my way of doing it. -- Gary <- wrote in message ... I don't know of any MsgBox way that has no buttons or won't awat closing before proceeding. One way developers usually handle it is to create a UserForm as the popup dialog. The VBA code shows the userform. The userform_Activate code calls further code to run. When the code is done, it Unloads the form. My preference is to use the StatusBar due to it's non-invasiveness. One of the downsides to using a form is it can get in the way of stepping through your code because of its modality. "Bob" wrote in message ... As my macro begins to execute, I need to display a pop-up window that simply says "One moment please..." When the macro is near the end of its execution, I then need to remove the pop-up window. Unless there is a better way to accomplish this, I was thinking of using a MsgBox, except I don't want (or need) the MsgBox to contain any buttons. But I don't know how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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yep, it's always worse with someone else's code.
-- Gary <- wrote in message ... Don't get me wrong, I like the userform idea because it's obvious and kind of cool. However, I had the very unpleasant task of inheriting a humongous project from a developer who never got it to work. There were tens of thousands of lines of code in it, and no code-commenting. The developer tied *everything* into a modal userform with incrementing status lines, emulating the look and feel of Windows. Great, but first of all, the project didn't work. Worse, if I made the form non-modal, or tried to disable it, NONE of the code would work. It was completely dependent on the form. I have never experienced a client that didn't know what a status bar was for. Office apps use them all the time. I agree they are not as obvious as forms, but there is certainly much less overhead in statusbars then userforms. Just my take. (and I am not inexperienced). "Gary Keramidas" <GKeramidasATmsn.com wrote in message ... when i use a form to display status and need to step through the code, i just type unload userform1 in the immediate window. most of my clients don't know what the status bar is for, so they never look at it. just my way of doing it. -- Gary <- wrote in message ... I don't know of any MsgBox way that has no buttons or won't awat closing before proceeding. One way developers usually handle it is to create a UserForm as the popup dialog. The VBA code shows the userform. The userform_Activate code calls further code to run. When the code is done, it Unloads the form. My preference is to use the StatusBar due to it's non-invasiveness. One of the downsides to using a form is it can get in the way of stepping through your code because of its modality. "Bob" wrote in message ... As my macro begins to execute, I need to display a pop-up window that simply says "One moment please..." When the macro is near the end of its execution, I then need to remove the pop-up window. Unless there is a better way to accomplish this, I was thinking of using a MsgBox, except I don't want (or need) the MsgBox to contain any buttons. But I don't know how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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Gary,
To practice, I created a single UserForm with only a Label in it. I left the default colors for the UserForm and Label alone. But when I execute the code to display the UserForm, all I see is a white box with a blue border and a blue caption area. I don't see any text! Any clue as to what I either did wrong or missed? Thanks, Bob "Gary Keramidas" wrote: i make a userform with only a label on it, i center it and make it as wide as the form. then when my first macro starts i use something like this: With UserForm1 .Caption = "Processing Scanner Data For " & Format(Worksheets("Date").Range("B2"), "MMMM dd yyyy") .Show End With DoEvents then, when the 2nd macro i called: UserForm1.Label1.Caption = "Adding Decipher Sheet Information" DoEvents when the 3rd macro is called: UserForm1.Label1.Caption = "Summarizing Data By Line Number" DoEvents and when the code is done: Unload UserForm1 -- Gary "Bob" wrote in message ... John, Thanks for the suggestion! I will give it a try. Bob "John in Wembley" wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:16:01 -0700, Bob wrote: As my macro begins to execute, I need to display a pop-up window that simply just make a small form, close it after a few seconds , I do this as splash screen on the opening of some of my sheets... |
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post the code you have,
-- Gary "Bob" wrote in message ... Gary, To practice, I created a single UserForm with only a Label in it. I left the default colors for the UserForm and Label alone. But when I execute the code to display the UserForm, all I see is a white box with a blue border and a blue caption area. I don't see any text! Any clue as to what I either did wrong or missed? Thanks, Bob "Gary Keramidas" wrote: i make a userform with only a label on it, i center it and make it as wide as the form. then when my first macro starts i use something like this: With UserForm1 .Caption = "Processing Scanner Data For " & Format(Worksheets("Date").Range("B2"), "MMMM dd yyyy") .Show End With DoEvents then, when the 2nd macro i called: UserForm1.Label1.Caption = "Adding Decipher Sheet Information" DoEvents when the 3rd macro is called: UserForm1.Label1.Caption = "Summarizing Data By Line Number" DoEvents and when the code is done: Unload UserForm1 -- Gary "Bob" wrote in message ... John, Thanks for the suggestion! I will give it a try. Bob "John in Wembley" wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:16:01 -0700, Bob wrote: As my macro begins to execute, I need to display a pop-up window that simply just make a small form, close it after a few seconds , I do this as splash screen on the opening of some of my sheets... |
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I'm having the same issue with the box popping up but only the boarder shows,
the middle is all white. Here is my code: Private Sub Workbook_Open() Sheets("Summary").Visible = xlSheetVisible If ThisWorkbook.ReadOnly True Then Call ShowDialog End If Application.ScreenUpdating = False Sheets("2008").Visible = xlSheetVisible Sheets("Invoices").Visible = xlSheetVisible Sheets("MasterList").Visible = xlSheetHidden Sheets("Enable Macros").Visible = xlSheetHidden Application.ScreenUpdating = True End Sub Sub ShowDialog() Pleasewait.Show End Sub Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean) Sheets("Enable Macros").Visible = xlSheetVisible Sheets("Summary").Visible = xlSheetHidden Sheets("2008").Visible = xlSheetHidden Sheets("Invoices").Visible = xlSheetHidden End Sub For the userbox: Private Sub UserForm_Activate() Dim wbk As Workbook Application.DisplayAlerts = False Set wbk = Workbooks.Open(Filename:="MasterList.xls", _ ReadOnly:=True, UpdateLinks:=True, _ Password:="xxxxx") With wbk .Close End With Set wbk = Nothing Pleasewait.Hide End Sub I created the userbox with "Please wait while actuals are being updated" in the center, but that isn't showing. Thanks, Chris "Gary Keramidas" wrote: post the code you have, -- Gary "Bob" wrote in message ... Gary, To practice, I created a single UserForm with only a Label in it. I left the default colors for the UserForm and Label alone. But when I execute the code to display the UserForm, all I see is a white box with a blue border and a blue caption area. I don't see any text! Any clue as to what I either did wrong or missed? Thanks, Bob "Gary Keramidas" wrote: i make a userform with only a label on it, i center it and make it as wide as the form. then when my first macro starts i use something like this: With UserForm1 .Caption = "Processing Scanner Data For " & Format(Worksheets("Date").Range("B2"), "MMMM dd yyyy") .Show End With DoEvents then, when the 2nd macro i called: UserForm1.Label1.Caption = "Adding Decipher Sheet Information" DoEvents when the 3rd macro is called: UserForm1.Label1.Caption = "Summarizing Data By Line Number" DoEvents and when the code is done: Unload UserForm1 -- Gary "Bob" wrote in message ... John, Thanks for the suggestion! I will give it a try. Bob "John in Wembley" wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:16:01 -0700, Bob wrote: As my macro begins to execute, I need to display a pop-up window that simply just make a small form, close it after a few seconds , I do this as splash screen on the opening of some of my sheets... |
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