Looking for ideas on "progress meter"

[pdtit]

Hey,

What I'm looking for is the following :

From a pop-up form, you can select several reports based on different criteria.
As some reports take a long time to run, I wanted to inform the user, as it sometimes looks like the PC stopped responding.

Therefore, I created a small form, with a label on it "Please Wait..."

However, I want to make it a bit more "active", and show something like a progress bar.

Does anyone know how I can do this in a simple way ??

I was also thinking on a 'running clock', by which the arrow keeps spinning and spinning around, so it gives the impression the Pc is still active.

I just don't know how to do this.

HEEELP

PdtIt

 

[THoey]

For a spinner, you could look up the timer function and use it to change a text message on your form. I did this once, a long time ago in Clipper. I used the following four characters:

| / -
I just changed which character was displayed every so many records loaded. You could change them based on an amount of time going by...

Does that help? Terry M. Hoey

 

[fwatanabe]

Access provides a built in progress meter using the SysCmd function.