>I just wanted to show the status of something I have running. It's only going to be run once so I wasn't going to invest much time in it, but I did want to see where the program was at as it runs.

I was usually having a blank listbox for that... something like

lparam cTxt
with this.listbox
   if .listcount>5
      .deleteitem(1)
   endif
   .additem(cTxt)
endwith

Not sure of real method names, but you get the idea. It just scrolls by itself - just call thisform.log("process going through a phase") and that's all.