Here's how you do it.

1) Add the _THERM.VCX control to your form. For VFP 6, it should be located in your Microsoft Visual Studio\VFP98\FFC directory; it should be located in a similar directory for other versions. Let's suppose you rename the control to pbrProgress.

2) Determine how many events of processing steps for which you want to display progress. For instance, lets say you have 12 proceswsing steps. You must initialize the control with this number of events:

   ThisForm.pbrProgress.Reset(12)

3) Initialize a counter to increment each event as it occurs. Let's call it lnCtr:

   lnCtr = 0

3) Just after each of these events, do the following:

   lnCtr = lnCtr + 1
   ThisForm.pbrProgress.Update(lnCtr)

4) After the last event or processing step, finish the process:

   ThisForm.pbrProgress.Complete()

This is about all you need to do. This is just about exactly what I'm doing and it works fine. Hope it works for you, too.

Henry