Downloading a file freezing embedded IE?

[Zinefer]

I have a gui interface with an embedded IE to display a loading gif, however, when I download a file with INETGET() it will freeze the gif inside of the ie object, for the duration of the download...

Does anyone know a way around this?

Thanks

[Richard Robertson]

Are you using the background option? If not, your script is paused until the download finishes.

[Zinefer]

Are you using the background option? If not, your script is paused until the download finishes.

No, i'm not. However, there is nothing in my code that is actually making the gif "animated"... Nothing else will pause the gif, and I am convinced its a wierd bug... Does anyone else have a good option on how to download a file that wont reproduce this odd error?

Thanks.

EDIT: You were right, this snippet fixed my problem:

While (@InetGetActive) 
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

Thanks alot!

Edited March 23, 2009 by Zinefer

[Richard Robertson]

Painting the window is something that needs to be done. If the window isn't allowed to be painted, it'll cause problems.

Good job on solving it though.