Chris,
Unless you are processing Outlook items in some sort of loop (e.g., looping
through each contact and updating the contact) a progress bar is not a
viable solution since Outlook has no event status of progress. An hour-
glass cursor is the correct implementation in this case. If you insist on
showing status through some sort of progress bar and not looping, you will
need to create a seperate thread and update the status every x msec (or sec
for very long processes); but understand the progress is not 'real'
progress and you will never know when to hit 100%. Some sort of animiation
(like the hourglass) is more appropriate. In a project I wrote years ago I
did not like the hourglass and wanted a progress bar. I made a thread and
had the progress bar move back and forth like the Kit in the Night Rider TV
show
.
Mark
