that makes sense except it requires intervention from programmer.

>The way I use my progress meter during long batch operations is that I only update it when I change tasks... For example:
>
>mytherm.setsize(1/5)
>append from mytable
>mytherm.setsize(2/5)
>replace all blah with blahblah
>mytherm.setsize(3/5)
>index on blah
>mytherm.setsize(4/5)
>select main
>set relation to blah into mytable
>replace all stuff with blah.stuff
>mytherm.setsize(5/5)
>
>That way, it only gets called a few times...
>
>>>Hi Tim,
>>>
>>>>Sounds good but how do you implement it?
>>>
>>>It extremely complicated, you drop it on a form and increment the Value property.
>>>
>>>There are lots of third party ProgressBars and Wrapper classes, but I just use the MS ProgressBar v6.0 that came woth VFP 6. Do you use ActiveX much? If you need anymore help me know.
>>
>>yeah, sounds complicated. I did get one from the files section just now and finagled it to run. It sure DOES slow down progress though! during a pass thru the dbf.