>if you're looking for a kind of a progress bar to let the user know about how's the process going I think you better forget about it. I remember one time somebody made a rutine to do this but this will slowdown the process pretty bad. if you want to achive something very similar then use the thermometer provided by VFP when the SET TALK is ON.
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>Select * from your table ....
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>Please be advise that if you're using VFP6 you'll get a really anoying message in any active form at that time. something like "30 records processed in xx secs."
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>if you want to avoid this, try to direct this message to some dummy window, or do what I do
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>SET STATUS BAR ON
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>SET TALK OFF
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>thus, the message will be displayed in the status bar
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>regards

There's less dramatic way to disable it. See Re: Thermometer when running SQL statement Thread #859420 Message #859427.