Hi Michael

I think I see your target. Tom is of course right in his statements, but if you wan't to display a progress bar you need indeed something to put it in.

One way you could handle this would be

1. Create the Form with the progress bar, and a methode eg. BarAdvance()
that increments and refreshes the progress bar.
2. At the beginnining of your routine place a DO FORM "yourForm" LINKED oYourForm
3. Now during execution of your code you can call oYourForm.BarAdvance() that will display the bar
with it's new value.
4. When finished your code apply a oYourForm.Release() and your done.

That way you don't even need a Read Events ... but as Tom already said: There are always several ways
to skin a cat :)

HTH
Markus