Progressbar help!!

[Troy Mac]

I have a program that uses the API call to ping an IP address and I want a progressbar to show progress.. it is very quick when the IP is found but when the IP is not found the system takes time to tell yu that the ip was not found. this is the time I need o capture with the progressbar... Any ideas?

[paulw]

You can't do this because you do not know in advance how long the process will take, so you cannot initialise the progress bar. You could take the same approach as Access and take a pessimistic view, set a conservative figure and give the appearance of progress.

Cheers,

P.