Jay,

I have used a simple FoxPro wait window for this whenever I use a SCAN...ENDSCAN. I know how many rows I am processing and I increment a counter each time through the SCAN so that I display the following:

Processing record xx of yy, where xx is the incremented counter and yy is the total in the scan. Here is the code:

SELECT lccursor
CALCULATE cnt() TO lntotal
lnordernbr = 1
SCAN
	DisplayStatus([Updating Order#] + STR(lnordernbr,5) + [ of ] + STR(lntotal,5))
	lnordernbr = lnordernbr + 1
                *Do some processing here
ENDSCAN	

FUNCTION DisplayStatus(lcMessage)
WAIT WINDOW NOWAIT NOCLEAR lcMessage
ENDFUNC

If you are not scanning through a table or cursor, maybe you can just use 'SET TALK ON'

HTH


>I need something visual that has almost no overhead that I can use to show a user that processing is still going on. I want it to look nice, but be very simple. I thought about just popping up a little modal window. Or maybe taking over their mouse cursor, but Foxpro doesn't always do well with that one. Any ideas?