>>>Hi, I hav a no idea of creating a progress Bar using vfp5.0 for displaying the % completed during Indexing and packing. can anyone please advise me on this. Thanks
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>>Use MS Progressbar Control.
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>>Drop CommandButton and at Click Event issue:
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nIctr = 100 &&ASSUMING 100 FILES
>>FOR ii = 1 TO nICtr
>>   USE mytable EXCL
>>   REINDEX
>>   Thisform.oleProgressBar.Value = ii*(Thisform.oleProgressBar.Max/nIctr)
>>ENDFOR

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>Jess,
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>I guess that the question was much more targeted at : how can I show a progress bar WHILE indexing.
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>I've done this in the past within an UDF ... but just accessing the file later on gets the nasty progress bar to pop over.

Ahhh... does he mean % of records packed or reindexed per table??