Elyse,

Look in the files section here under Win32API. I think there's a sample of controlling the mouse pointer with API calls which are more reliable than setting it from within FoxPro.

>I would like to have more control over the appearance of the MousePointer. Particularly, I want to show an hourglass whenever the system is doing something. I want to control when it turns to an hourglass and when it reverts back to the default. I tried "_screen.MousePointer=11" but that only works when the mouse is over the _screen. How can I get it to show the hourglass no matter what it's over?