You problably could write a UDF to send messages to your soft, and call that UDF in your Stored Procedure. But really don't think that it worth the efforts and time cost.
Also, how you think in measure the expected total time in execution?

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Maurizio P." <mauriz_po@...> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> there is a way to show the  progress of a SP ?
> i mean in my SP there is a FOR SELECT ....
> and i would like to show the progress in the delphi
> application , i know it is not a delphi newsgroup ....
>
> i tried with :
> sp output parameters , generators , threads ....
> with no results ....
>
> thanks
>
> Mauro