Display Message Box/Slide while process running background ?

[winterishere8]

I have a report generation VI which generates the report and calls distiller to write to pdf. This takes about 5 - 6 secs. While this process is going on, I want to display a modal message box or some kind of a VI which some slide  bar on it indicating the progress. Any pointers on how to get started on this ?

[Darren]

If your report generation is taking place in a For Loop, you can check out the VI I posted to this thread:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=68488&query.id=41319#M68488

-D

[winterishere8]

I will take a look at the link discussion.

My report is not in a for loop. My report reads from a global string and generates report. Calling of the distiller takes some time and reading all the variables take few secs.