>>>>>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?
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>>>>What about nice progress bar by Carlos Alloatti? I don't think it's much overhead since it's Windows API based.
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>>>Before I check it out, is it SQL dependent? Do I need to put a bunch of call in my existing code for it to know how much has processed? I don't need something necessarily that shows progress, just let's them know things are still going on.
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>>In the ctl32_progressbar, you can set the ctlMarquee style to .T. and show a progressbar just like the one shown when XP or Vista are starting.
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>>Depending on the kind of "processing" you are doing, the progresbar may or may not update, you just have to try it:
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Local llAutoYield, lnx, lnfoo
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>>Thisform.ctl32_progressbar1.ctlMarquee = .T.
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>>m.llAutoYield = _vfp.AutoYield
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>>_vfp.AutoYield = .T.
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>>For lnx = 1 To 10000000
>>	m.lnfoo = Rand()
>>Endfor
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>>Thisform.ctl32_progressbar1.ctlMarquee = .F.
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>>_vfp.AutoYield = m.llAutoYield
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>>This will work, a little bit jerky sometimes maybe, but it works.
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>>The ctl32 controls are not activex, but they need _vfp.autoyield set to .F. to work properly while handling window messages. That prevents the progressbar from updating properly sometimes
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>Why is it so jerky? I had high hopes when I went to the site, but you're right; it stops and starts and jumps around. I know the users wont like that.

Well, due to the fact that VFP is not multithreaded, it can only do one thing at a time. Converting this to a multithreaded control is beyond my knowledge, but I think it could be done.

I don´t know what your processing involves, could you post a sample of what are you doing in your "processing"? This would help me explore new ways to make this work.

I have used this control only in scan-endscan type loops, so I just increase the progressbar value each time.

Carlos