Hello Marcel! After 15 minutes of hard research I've nice results: an Active-X Progress bar can display itself during long SQL-query or Append from... What should you do: 1. Place Progress bar on the form and name it as oleProgressBar. 2. Add new method to the Form called UpdateBar 3. Place an following code in this method: thisform.oleProgressBar.value=_tally return .t. 4. In Init event of form place the following code: thisform.oleProgressBar.max=reccount() && or expected maximum of records 5. In your SQL query place the following addition: select *, thisform.UpdateBar() as update from ddd into cursor tmp thisform.oleProgressBar.Value=_tally I've tried this trick and it work fine on my computer... hope this help! Have a happy day Vladimir Shevchenko > I hope one of you can give me some help about getting Active-X controls to > work on my forms. > Is there documentation about the 'progressbar'? Is what i want not possible > at all? Please, help me