Outlook threading with ActiveX DLL

[vass0922]

Ok I have a ActiveX DLL that is called from a button in Outlook

Everything works great, no problems....

The deal is, when you hit the button Outlook won't respond to anything because the ActiveX code is running

When I first created this, I created it as a macro. I've upgraded it to a full activex dll.
When it was a macro it was great because while it was working (it sometimes has to sort through several hundred messages) you could still move around Outlook with no problem!
Now that its an activex dll nothing else responds to the user until its completed

Is there a way to spawn the process of in another thread?
I tried making an activeX EXE but that didn't help
I also tried making the ActiveX DLL apartment threaded... no help

Any suggestions?
DLL was created in VB6

[Creosote]

Have you put DoEvents inb the appropriate places?

[vass0922]

ya.. np there
its not just slow, you can click around outlook just fine, it just won't respond. But if you click on another app it comes up just fine.

[Creosote]

It sounds strange. Are you just running the code from Outlook, or are you using the Outlook object model for something? What if the code referenced a new instance of Outlook, and tried to destroy it when it was done?