Thank you for the guess Dragan. Unfortunately it doesn't work.

I'm giving up. It would be helpful if anyone had a program that showed the state of all SETs, but I don't want to waste time writing one at this stage of the game.

Thank you and others who helped.

Alex

>>>>>I dont remember that vfp statusbar displays a progressbar (even when compiling a project).
>>>>>there is an IDE progressbar displayed when compiling proj but on vfp window and it can be built with native Thermometer Foundation Class (there is an example in vfp solution). or by activeX.(MSComctlLib.ProgCtrl.2)
>>>>>Nowadays there is more beautiful and colored progressabars
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>>>>Hi Yousi. I didn't mean a progress bar, but the names of the files being added flashing in the status bar at the bottom of the screen,
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>>>You have those in debug output window... if you keep the debugger open while building.
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>>No luck, Dragan. I think I recall that it requires a combination of settings, but don't remember which.
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>Blind guess would be set("development"). I know it always shows in my case. And possibly include debug info in the project itself.
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>>It really isn;t critical I suppose, but it frustrates me not to be able to see sign of progress, except for little circle spinning. which can also mean program has hung.
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>>Alex