Progress bar

[Alain]

Hello to All,

I would like to know if it is possible to set up a progress bar in an Access
application, if so then How to,
The reason is I want the user to see that the pdf document he is requesting
is being loaded on his machine, the document is coming from a outside
server, and while is he wating, he can see the download process...

My original idea was to use the hourglass property but not knowing the
download time needed to load the document, it is difficult for me to turn
off the hourglass

Any other suggestion will be gratefull

Many thanks

Alain

 

[Brian]

Hello to All,

I would like to know if it is possible to set up a progress bar in an Access
application, if so then How to,
The reason is I want the user to see that the pdf document he is requesting
is being loaded on his machine, the document is coming from a outside
server, and while is he wating, he can see the download process...

My original idea was to use the hourglass property but not knowing the
download time needed to load the document, it is difficult for me to turn
off the hourglass

Any other suggestion will be gratefull

Many thanks

Alain

There is a ProgressBar ActiveX control, but I don't see that it's going to
help: you don't know how long the download will take, nor how far it has
progressed, so how can you possibly maintain the progress on the progress
bar?