In the message I was referring to, the BO does not update the user interface. It only call a method in the user interface layer who does the actual update of the status bar. So the separation between the user interface and the BO is not broken.

>If both the FrontEnd and Business Objects are in VFP I could always have the BO update a status bar as it runs the long process however that seems to me to break the separation between the user interface and the BO so I was looking for some other alternative.