Alan,

You will have a much lower impact on your system if you just seed status points inside the methods themselves:

thisform.SetStatus( "Right now I'm doing X" )
...more code
thisform.SetStatus( "Now I'm doing Y" )


You could also use a timer on the form itself, that checked the PROGRAM() stack to see what method is currently executing.

>I want to use a Form to monitor the state of a series of custom methods. In other words, I want to show Stage A started, then completed, Stage B started, etc. The various Stages are custom form methods.
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>The trick is this has to happen automatically once the form is loaded (it gets called from a timer event), without any user intervention.
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>I don't know how/where to call the custom methods. Should I imbed a call directly in a form method (which one), or maybe stuff a KEYBOARD call to an invisible control, or is there a way to do this outside the form's control ? What's the best way to implement this ?