>Hi Terry,
>
>I'm not sure if it's a valid suggestion for you, but I know that Alexander Grigoriev's library allows to add progress bar in VFP status bar. May be it's worth a quick test.

Thanks - this project is minimal - I usually have a progress bar inside a staus bar panel - But I did not use a status object for this guy - I finally figured out how overlay a transparent form - it looks kind of cool!