Hi Cetin,

'Wait Window' can serve the purpose, but a good progress bar looks professional. It can be used to provide quite useful information. For instance, the progress bar I use can display up to 3 lines of text (each for a separate phase, e.g. preprocess, processing, export, etc. ). As each phase gets completed, it displays a tick mark before the corresponding line. I can change the text in the progress bar (e.g. 'Phase 1 of 5' to 'Phase 2 of 5') and restart the bar from 0 %. Besides, it is not complicated. All I use - Set maxCount property, and a method to set progress bar text and Update().

The problem with 'animated images' is that it continues to suggest that something is going on even if the application has stopped working or failed.

Basically, a progress bar that runs within FoxPro using FoxPro commands gives more control to the programmer.

- Ravi