Hello, Thanks for the examples. I read though them but still having issues on how i should be implementing it. maybe i am retarted or somthing :P so i have created my progress bar

    $main->AddProgressBar(-name =>'pbar',
                          -height=>20,
                          -width =>175,
                          -pos => [5,550],
                          -smooth => 1,
                          -SetRange =>(0,100)
                          );
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So how do i wrap that into my long functions so the end user knows somthing is going on and the program is not frozen. So for example, I have a function that finds some logs based on a case number builds an array and then prints it out to a text box. So i would like the progress bar to be running while it's doing this in the back ground so the end user doesn't get a message indicating that the program is not responding.

    sub btnFindLogs_Click
    {#start sub
                      
           
        opendir(my $dir, $logSite) or die "Can't open '$logSite': $!";
        for my $file (readdir($dir))
            {
            
              for my $pattern ($CaseNumber)
            {
              if ($file =~ /$pattern/)
            {
            push @return, $file;
            # This avoids having the file in the result twice
            last;
            }
      }
    }
     @return = sort (@return);
     $size = @return;
     
    #end sub
    
    ##Populate text box with the serach resutls.
        foreach(@return)
        {
            
            $main->CaseSearchResults->Append($_."\r\r\n");}
 
        }#end of else
        
              }
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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