>I have a number of routines which are invoked when a user clicks a button. The problem is the routines take quite a while to run and therefore I would like to display a message to the user of what is happening. Rather than use a Wait window are there any other techniques I could use?
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>I have seen a form with a list box or something and everytime somethings happens it writes a record to a cursor which is displayed in a list box on the form.
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>Is this easy to do I cant remeber where I have seen this? Any help would be appreciated.
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>Many Thanks

Another start point:

Audit_Open("Some Process")

FOR k=1 TO 100
	=Audit_Add(TRANSFORM(m.k,"@R phase 999999"))
	=INKEY(RAND()*1)
NEXT

Audit_Close()


PROCEDURE Audit_Open(cTitle)
	DEFINE POPUP Audit ;
		FROM 10,10 MARGIN ;
		TITLE (m.cTitle);
		FONT "Lucida Console",8
		

PROCEDURE Audit_Add(cText)
	IF CNTBAR('Audit')>0
		SET MARK OF BAR CNTBAR('Audit') OF Audit TO .T.
	ENDIF
	DEFINE BAR CNTBAR('Audit')+1 OF Audit ;
		PROMPT TTOC(DATETIME())+' >> '+m.cText;
		COLOR SCHEME 1+CNTBAR('Audit')%2

	ACTIVATE POPUP Audit BAR CNTBAR('Audit') NOWAIT
	SHOW POPUP Audit
	
PROCEDURE Audit_Close
	DEACTIVATE POPUP Audit
	RELEASE POPUPS Audit