Can I process some code and display an animated "circle" to say I am doing something

Hi,

I want to do some data checking etc BEFORE I open a particular app, and as there may be a second or two delay in processing this code, I want to display an animated image of a spinning circle just to reassure the user that the program is “doing something”, and making sure that the rest of the screen is plain white, no buttons, no nothing. Just to make it clean and simple.

I had two options. A control app and a blank app. For some reason I cannot get the image to display in a blank app, I tried echo and html, but no luck. Now, using a control app, I can display the image OK, however, it is only visible if the “process” code I need to run is placed AFTER the load event and not in it. So the problem I have is if I place the code in say the validate event, how can I fire up that event programmatically? OR is there a better way to do this?

Thanks

Tony