Hi thanks for reading.

Im sure the answer to this is simple, it just eludes me at this point.

Im tring to use a progress bar to simply show the progress of 55 files
being created and saved to disk.  However when I use the JProgressBar
in my code, it only shows up when the task is completed...  Obviously I

need it to be shown updating the entire time, seems like im missing
something pretty basic.

heres the code for your perusal, the updates occurs later in the code,
but since its not showing up until it is completed I believe the error
is here  + Thanks! :

               //start up progress FRAME
               JFrame jfrProgress = new JFrame("Creating Movie...");
               Container contentPane = jfrProgress.getContentPane();
               SpringLayout layout = new SpringLayout();
               contentPane.setLayout(layout);

               //set up progress BAR
               JProgressBar pbProgress;
               pbProgress = new JProgressBar(ISTARTFRAME,
iFinalFrame);
               pbProgress.setValue(ISTARTFRAM­E);
               pbProgress.setStringPainted(tr­ue);
               pbProgress.setString("Step 1 - Creating Files...");
               pbProgress.setSize(500, 40);

               //add progress bar to frame
               jfrProgress.getContentPane().a­dd(pbProgress);

               //display frame
               jfrProgress.setLocation(400, 300);
               jfrProgress.setSize(250, 100);
               pbProgress.setVisible(true);
               jfrProgress.setVisible(true);