I was thinking of something similar. The best thing about the NG is the ability to put jumps in the middle of macros. Watch this. Take, say, 200 pixels of the window's width. Divide it into 100 2-pixel wide chunks. We all have macros that take lots of time. The important part of the macro is when it is sending a command. Take the number of commands you actually send and divide it by 100. Immediately after a command is sent, jump to a new page whose status bar is that much percent (x2 per pixel) farther along.

Say you have 4 commands, with pauses in between to sync things up. Before the first command, jump to a status page that has 0% filled. Send the first command, and jump to a page that has a 50-pixel long (25%) status bar. Pause until the next command. Send the next command, then jump to a 100-pixel long bar. ... After the fourth command, update to 100%, pause for a split second, then goto the real device panel.

Now all I need is to sell my old TSU-2000, and get a 3000 so I can implement this. Sad thing is, a friend from work may buy it. He has a 1000, and is looking for TWO MORE PRONTOS!!!! His wife (also a co-worker of ours) is gonna kill me.

Frank