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>>>>The PROGRESS_STATUS() aleways returns .T. but can use the m.tnum_records and m.tnum_processed variables to display a percentage of total records processed so far in some format, numeric, progress bar, whatever.
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>>>Thanks!
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>>While that is interesting, the problems with it are that the index created that way will not be the smallest it can be. Indexing will take longer that way too, and not because of the display update, but because updating indexes takes longer than building from scratch.
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>>The quickest possible way - and that excludes all progress bar approaches I've ever seen - is to direct TALK and NOTIFY to a custom window and let VFP do it's own internal display.
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>My way allows for an elegant display of progress at minimal cost (iro index size or time) using todays computers.

Elegant and minimal are in the eye of the beholder.