Cetin,

I will give you a little more detail. This app is an electric sign-off process for engineering changes. When the initial writer attemps to approve a change(submitt it into the sign-off cycle) the first thing that happens is I check to see if a pdf file exists for this drawing so it will be viewable to all in the sign-off cycle. If it does not exist a run command is envolked to process each sheet of the drawing into a .ps file(another support app takes it from here to do the pdf work). This is the process that takes a variable length of time depending on the size of the drawing. Remember I need the approval button to wait for all this before saying ok the change can move to the next stage. Now if I have a modal form that pops up and automatically starts the .ps process and at the same time start a progress bar I have trouble. How do you get two timers to run similtaneously? And how could I get the progress bar to show even an estimated progress time?