>Hi,
> I have a program that need to load MS Outlook and startup, it takes very long time in order to user could see the main screen...about 20-30 seconds....
> How could I tell user that my program is loading but not hang? I tried to use animation by timer and animation.ocx, but it don work properly... the animation don move when loading MS Outlook ....
> Any suggestion?
>
>Thank you

One thing I have done is to use SETALL() to set the MousePointer property of all objects on the form to hourglass while loading takes place. Most users understand the hourglass means the system is working. Then after loading is complete, use SETALL() to restore normal mouse pointer.

Bill