>I've opted to use "set talk on" to display VFP's native progress bar but I can't suppress the message that displays how many records were retrieved and the elapsed time. Example:
>
>SET TALK ON
>select street,hydrant,miles ;
> from firemain ;
> where blah blah blah ;
> into cursor mycursor
>SET TALK OFF
>
>After query completes the message "selected # records in # seconds" appears on my form and covers up some controls...very messy.
>
>Also, I have some longer queries that have UNION statements in them. Is there a way to only show one progress bar that starts when the first select fires and ends after the entire query is complete even if there are union statements involved?
>
>Thanks,
>
>John

John,

When I SET TALK ON, the talk messages are directed to the status bar. Have you turned off the status bar? If you have, you could either turn it on or SET TALK WINDOW which will cause the talk messages to be placed in a wait window kind of window.

HTH