chart/worksheet/macro interaction

I am running a macro which simulates an engineering application. The macro
essentially time steps, sending the data at each time step to a worksheet,
and a chart is set up to display the data in graphical form.

Problem - although the worksheet is updated at each time step, the chart
only updates when the macro has finished executing - and I want to see the
data being graphed as the simulation proceeds - is there anyway of getting
the macro to pause while the chart is updated - some kind of handshake
between EXCEL and the macro? (At the moment the only way I can do this is to
put a STOP in the code loop.)

Thanks in advance

Have you turned off screen updating or calculation to speed the macro?
Turn them back on in each loop. Also try the DoEvents, which tells Excel
to let the computer do some of the other things it's waiting to do, like
refresh screens and the like.

- Jon
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Peltier Technical Services
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nc10001 wrote:

> I am running a macro which simulates an engineering application. The macro
> essentially time steps, sending the data at each time step to a worksheet,
> and a chart is set up to display the data in graphical form.
>
> Problem - although the worksheet is updated at each time step, the chart
> only updates when the macro has finished executing - and I want to see the
> data being graphed as the simulation proceeds - is there anyway of getting
> the macro to pause while the chart is updated - some kind of handshake
> between EXCEL and the macro? (At the moment the only way I can do this is to
> put a STOP in the code loop.)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>