>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


One thing I have seen done in the past is to put a function call to a thermometer routine into the index statement. Like

INDEX ON CUSTID + THERMFUNCTION() TAG CUSTID

What this does is call the thermfunction for each record indexed. The function returned a blank string that did not alter the index. Within the function you counted records (how many times was it called?) and display the thermometer.

This method works well as far as displaying a thermometer but has some downsides.

Reindexing takes longer.
You can only add records if the thermfunction is in the current path.

I would never do it myself.