I'm not exactly sure if this will help or not since I've never written something like this before. So if not - eh....what can I say? :-) What if the progress bar always went from 0% to 100%? Then all someone would have to provide is where, in the 0-100% range they are. This is fairly easy to do given it's just a simple ratio. All fractions can be rounded to the nearest whole number and the progress bar area itself could be exactly 101 pixels wide. Then you just add one to the number sent to you to get 1-101 pixels which would then be filled in with the progress bar. Just a thought. :-) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch