Help with updating STATUSSTRIP element from MOD procedure

[John]

I have a STATUSSTRIP placed on a form called DESKTOP, which is always ON TOP and present.  This form calls and runs everything in my VB.NET application, and happens to be the STARTUP form.  I call an PROC which is one of my MODULES instead of CLASS.  This PROC happens to run for a long time.  I would like for the PROC to post an update to the STATUSSTRIP located on my DESKTOP form (calling form) using the STATUSSTRIPLABEL.VALUE1 and STATUSSTRIPLABEL.TEXT properties.  How would I accomplish this?

I tried using DESKTOP.STATUSSTRIP.TEXT = "Something..." and it would not work from my SUB.  Basically, my code would look like this on the FORM side.

PRIVATE SUB DESKTOP_ONLOAD() HANDLES FORM_LOAD

    ....
    Call gsDoSomething
    ...
    
    ME.STATUSSTRIPLABEL.TEXT = "Ready..."
    
END SUB

The PROC being called will live in a MODULESOMETHING.VB file in my project and its code will resemble...

PUBLIC SUB gsDoSomething()

    ....
    DESKTOP.STATUSSTRIPLABEL.TEXT = "Doing something..."
    ...

END SUB

Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

[Peter]

Hi,

I am sending you a modified version of my previous sample. In this sample I pass as an argument the Desktop form instance to the PROC containing the long-running operation.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely yours,
Peter
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[sayyed mahdi khadishi]

hi
it's very bad that i should run Application.DoEvents() for ever change Text
standard statusbar don't need it.
good luck