>In similar situations, I pop up a one or two line quotation in a wait window nowait, do the time consuming sql or whatever, and then release the wait window. No animation, but a table of a couple hundred interesting / humorous / provoking quotes gives them something to read and ponder. I also use this technique while larger forms are loading.
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>If you're interested, I'll send you the table I've put together. The quotes came mostly from the books "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (in two lines or less)" and "The Experts Speak (The definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation)".
I am interested in a copy of the table of quotations, if possible.
I read "The Experts Speak" a while ago, and found the quotations extremely interesting. The computer part is especially interesting, for instance, from IBM's president (?): "I estimate there is a world-wide market for about 5 computers.", or something to that effect.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
