: : I have wrote a app for recieve data from serial port by MSCOMM32.OCX. : The recieve process can't monitor, so i want to : get a thermometer OCX for it. : When data is input, this thermometer grow . : I have downloaded one from vfp yellow page, : but when it works , it must know what size of recieve : data. and it display process with percent . : I want to get one , display working state only. : some one can help me? you can easly write something that will do some crude animation and base it on a timer - I've written such an object and it works ok Arnon