Hi Ralph, in loading and parsing large files I would like to interact with my application to provide progress indicators. In a component-type model, I'd use a TNotify event in the component (MS XML has several) to callout my UI updating - but we're not using a component model. the only callbacks I can find relate to reading / writing etc not to parsing - I suppose I could kludge someting in the file-related events, but its not very .... nice. is there a type of event structure, or other callback that I'm missing that would give me meaningful progress events as follows: - during file save and load; and - during node parseing in a document thanks and regards, a. _______________________________________________ Delphi Inspiration mailing list yunqa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx //www.freelists.org/list/yunqa