Hi,
I am running a shell command in form1 and once the shell command is completed it opens form2,
I want the progress bar to be displayed while the shell command is running, once the shell command is completed the progress bar closes and form2 opens?

I tried the start and finish methods, the finish will actually calculate the time it took to run the shell command and then it passes to the timer as the max time, so what is happening is the progress bar starts to work after the shell command is run, I want to show the progress bar while the shell command is being run.

The time the shell command takes to run = max time of the timer and progress bar should run simultaneously with the run shell command.

any help is greatly appreciated
thanks
p1