Forms 5 ..timers ..

I am running a few stored procedure using my form. What I need to do is to inform the user that the procedure is running and then again when the procedure is completed. the reason being that these procedures take some time to complete

I tried doing this with the following in the when button pressed trigger

   message('procedure xxx running , NO_ACKNOWLEDGE)    call the procedure
   message ('Procedure completed , NO_ACKNOWLEDGE)

CRAPPY CODING HUH... But the above does not work.. if I do not include the NO_ACKNOWLEDGE the message box appears wuth a OK button which is not what I want

Then I though about timers .. I know you can use timers to poll the database to check is a certain events has occured . BUT i have not got a clue on how to do it

IF any one can got any code or can think of another way to tackle this problem any help would be greatly appreciated

thks
regards
michael Dsouza

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