Rod, forms doesn't allow one to change the mouse cursor, good idea though. KiXGUI doesn't either (to the best of my knowledge). Your best short-term bet would be to go with your original idea of popping-up a "Please wait ..." message. But the trick is to de-active (disable) the parent window from receiving mouse clicks. Forms does this automatically, when creating subsequent forms off the main form. I believe Alex added this feature to KiXGUI, later-on in the game. So might want to check your versions. I think he may have some notes about this on his website. I just called them child-forms, but Alex calls them owned-forms (if memory serves).

One thing you might try, with KiXGUI, is to "manually" disable the parent form while displaying the wait message form, ie:

$mainform.enabled = 0

then, re-enable when done. Not sure if this works with KiXGUI or not.

-Shawn