I am searching for ideas on how to give feedback to the user while a long process is under way. The user sets all the treatments he would like to do on a file and click on the "Process" button. The click event of the button calls the Process method of my COM object. The GUI is now frozen there until my COM return and the COM return only when all the treatments are done, witch can take many minutes.

How do I give feedback to the user on the process of the treatments? I cannot start a new thread because VFP is not multi-threaded, the GUI is stuck to the call to the COM and AFAIK, the COM should not display anything on screen because it may be ported to the internet in a near future.

Any ideas?

TIA