Appreciation to those who informed me that the hooks to the internal VFP prog bars were guarded by angels with flaming swords. Ah well, it was a nice dream while it lasted.
To those who warned that my 'retro' SET STAT ON textbox would sludge up my performance -- good advice. I should have the opportunity to test the code with this status box toggled on and off, against large databases in several quite different environments and will report my findings to this forum.
The .AVI suggestion certainly answers the need to make the screen look busy during these long processes, so people don't think it's hung. The warped mind could conceive some truly insidious .AVI 'progress displays' in the wee hours...
I have been using an animated cursor that I set just before I begin the REIN, PACK or whatever. This is a pretty low-maintenance way to get a little action happening onscreen. Let's say the name of the .ANI file is BUSY.ANI:
THISFORM.MOUSEICON='BUSY.ANI'
THISFORM.MOUSEPOINTER=99
And when I'm done:
THISFORM.MOUSEPOINTER=0
There are some clever sets of animated cursors at the following URL, the Busy cursor in the 'Wire' set is a favorite of mine:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/2914/cursorsh.htmlFinally, Ken, your suggestion about using a UDF is devious enough to appeal to me! In my typical process I would create the tag just-in-time and delete it afterwards, so it wouldn't hang around to clutter up the system. This will certainly be worth some time trials also.
Regards, all!
