How do you write to the bottom tray of a form? 1

[PatMcLaughlin]

Probably a simple process, but I am a simple ...
I am needing to add text to the bottom left of the displayed form. My problem is that I have a procedure that will take 45 seconds to 3 minutes to process and I need to have something happening to keep the user from stopping the process before it completes. If I had a record count going on, they would know something is happening. I just don't know how to access the bottom tray.

 

[Mike Lewis]

I'm not sure what you mean by "the bottom tray".

Do you mean the status bar, that is, the strip that appears along the bottom of the main Foxpro window? If so, then you want the SET MESSAGE command. (You might need to SET STATUS BAR ON first.)

If you want the message to appear at the foot of the form (as opposed to the outer Foxpro window), then just place a label at the required position, and change its Caption property as appropriate.

One other possibility is to use a Wait window. For that, you need WAIT WINDOW ... NOWAIT.

Mike

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[Dan Freeman]

Must it be lower left corner?

Mike mentioned WAIT WINDOW, which will appear upper right. If that location suffices, and you have a lengthy process where you can't repeatedly issue WAIT WINDOW you might experiment with SET TALK WINDOW which will use the same window but put the output of SET TALK in it.

 

[PatMcLaughlin]

I knew it had to be easy! SET MESSAGE TO did exactly what I wanted it to do! Thanks again Mike!