That's the only solutions you have. Crystal has no way to know how many records will be pulled in the query, so there is no way to display a progress bar.
>Look at the EnableProgressControl and EnableAnimationCtrl properties of the Report Viewer control.
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>This is an answer that I got which doesn't help very much and I'm still having problems doing this.
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>So I'm asking again.
>Does anyone know how to display a progress bar that would show the remaining time for a crystal report to be displayed in the CRView control. I'm accessing the data using visual basics data environment by way of jet 4.0, hope this is clear enough.
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>Thanks,
>Derek J. Klingman
>System Programmer
>Micro League Software
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Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer