>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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>"Now printing report for style T675"      29/12/04 15:34:00
>"Now attaching report for style T567"     29/12/04 15:35:00
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>Is this easy to do I cant remeber where I have seen this? Any help would be appreciated.

I've had this scrolling listbox in a couple of places where it would have to report about once per second or so, i.e. in long processes where there's something to report every once in a while, but nothing that could be expressed as a percentage. The code would look like this:

lParam cText
with this.listbox
   .additem(cText)
   if .listcount>10
      .removeitem(1)
   endif
endwith

...so I never displayed more than ten items.