davesmith202
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How do you let your PC get a little bit of CPU time back again, when in a long vba loop? Knew this before but forgot!
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Releasing processor usage from loop
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davesmith202
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Ahh that sounds familiar! Will check out DoEvents thanks.
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its this sort of thing
for x= 1 to somevalue
dostuff
doevents
end
without the doevents the access app will "lock" until the loop finishes. which may be exactly what you want in some cases - ie put the hourglass up, and wait - or include a progress meter.
adding the doevents lets access deal with other events - so you can continue to interact with the app - which may improve the user experience - but you need to be careful in case you do stuff that may affect the loop itself.
for x= 1 to somevalue
dostuff
doevents
end
without the doevents the access app will "lock" until the loop finishes. which may be exactly what you want in some cases - ie put the hourglass up, and wait - or include a progress meter.
adding the doevents lets access deal with other events - so you can continue to interact with the app - which may improve the user experience - but you need to be careful in case you do stuff that may affect the loop itself.
