Hey JT,

I think I know where you are needing to use this <s>.

When I did the same thing as a test ages ago, I first instantiated the remote object and had it return the total number of records that will be in the SCAN (temp1 record count). Then I started the thermomter using the returned count as the upper boundry, and called the COM processing method in a loop - once for each record, and this gave me the ongoing count to increment the thermometer.

Of course there was some overhead called the method in a loop, but really not too much. You'll get the biggest penalty from the initial COM remote intsantiation, then the communication is pretty fast after that.

Of course, that was a while ago and I may have actually forgotten everything.

E-mail me and let me know how things are going.

Rick


>I've seen plenty of examples of VFP developed COM components which simply return a value. That's straightforward. But how can I accomplish the following example?
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>My VFP app calls an out of process COM component (developed in VFP6) which SCANs through a large table and does a bunch of processing. This will be time consuming, so I want to display a thermometer bar on the UI to show its progress for the end user. The COM component is out of process and I know that it cannot display any UI, so what's the best way to make the calling process provide a thermometer bar?
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>Thanks in advance,
>John Tappero