>You can't show a modal progress bar because it will stop the processing of the underlying operation (unless it's part of the form itself).

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The form I want this for allows the user to select parameters for a report. They click the "Preview" button, and the progress form shows the progress while I build a cursor for the report.

If the progress form is not modal, and the user clicks somewhere on the print form (or closes it, or clicks the preview again) waht's supposed to happen?

I would think the you shouldn't be able to click on the print form. If the user wants to stop they would click a cancel button on the progress form. That seems to be a pretty typical scenario for most windows apps, isn't it?

IAC, I guess I can make the progress on a container and .addobject it to the form and kill it when the process is down. Oh well.

>I've got a modeless one that I'll share if you like.

Thanks. I've got a nonmodal one. Just trying to get it to work the way a user might expect it to.