It is unusial behaviour. How many windows/forms do you have open in application? Perhaps it is something to do with particular window/form property.

>I have that very code right before my SQL select statement but over the course of the 17 seconds it takes to run there is no thermometer shown. Are there some other criteria that are used about when it will show a thermometer?
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>>set talk on
>>and
>>set talk wind
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>>>I noticed that when long SQL Select queries are run in FPW 2.5 I see a thermometer pop up giving me a status of how the query is going. When I put the same query in my EXE I don't see it. Is there a setting that forces this to display in an executable or do I have to somehow create my own thermometer?