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Progress Bar Functions

This subroutine provides a display of a progress bar associated either with the printing of report, or the processing of some repetitive function. With a series of simple calls, the progress bar is initialize, launched, counted, and closed. The calling program can pass the name of a file that is going to be processed, and the routine will determine how many records are in that file, to be used to represent 100 %; or the calling program can pass the number of events that are to be performed.

Key Benefits

  • Lets operators know how a process is progressing
  • The generation of reports may be cancelled by the operator
  • Estimates and displays the expected elapsed time that a given process is going take to perform

Key Features

  • Show the progress of activities performed, or of pages printed
  • Estimates the time left for the process to be completed
  • For report generation, offers a [Cancel] button for the operator to signal the calling program to abandon its process

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