>I have this import that takes forever and I don't want the user to think their computer's locked up. So I'm trying to force some type of changing message to be displayed. I have this one line of code:
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append from c:\textfile for (thisform.ForceStatus)


Try: append from c:\textfile for (thisform.ForceStatus<b>()</b>)

instead.

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>that should do the import.
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>The code in the ForceStatus method doesn't do a whole lot. Basically it's just a case statement, such as this:
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select case
>    case mod(recno(), 20) = 0
>         msg = "Importing...."
>    case mod(recno(), 30) = 0
>         msg = "Importing........"
>    (and so forth through mod(recno(), 90))
>endcase
>wait window msg nowait
>return .t.

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>But when I try to run the form I get an error back up at the "append from " line stating that ForceStatus is a method or event or object (or something very similar to that message).
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>So my question is, where should I put this subroutine so that it may be called by the append statement so that I can have some type of changing message. Thanks!