Hi Leith

I appreaciate your help :-) though it does not what I try to do.

When I activate my timer in Excel so that the progressbar form will be
shown in 5 seconds and schwitch to another application - then after 5
seconds Excel bring itselves in front and the userform comes on top of
it all.

That is not what I want.

I want Excel to stay in background, updating whatever and here my
problem is with the userform with progress bar.

Normally when the user works in Excel, the user schould be informed
that something is going on (userform with progressbar).
Then - when the user schwitches to another application, Excel schould
continue its scheduled automatic refreshing.. and here - I want the
userform with bar not to come on top... at the same time the code
schould continue.. updating the userform and progressbar - in
background.

What happends when modal is that code stops, and Excel icon on my
taskbar is blinking.
When I then activate Excel, the userform comes up.... It have been -
"waited" for my action... It schould have continued itself.

Hope it is understandable. :-)

Cheers Leon




On 8 Jul., 18:39, Leith Ross
wrote:
Hello Leon,

I should have proof read my post. I changed the GetActiveWindow in my
original routine to GetForegroundWindow because the latter has s
slightly higher priority and has proven to be more stable across
different Windows systems. the code should be this...

'================================================= ========
'Returns the Window Handle of the Window
'that is accepting User input.
Public Declare Function GetForegroundWindow Lib "user32.dll" () As
Long

Sub KeepFormOnTop()

Const HWND_TOPMOST As Long = -1
Const SWP_NOMOVE As Long = &H2
Const SWP_NOSIZE As Long = &H1

SetWindowPos GetForegroundWindow(), HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, _
SWP_NOMOVE + SWP_NOSIZE

End Sub
'================================================= ========

--
Leith Ross

Sincerely,
Leith Ross

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