Mary,

Try to flip visible property. E.g after you set the caption do

this.lbl.visible=.f.
this.lbl.visible = .t.

>Here is the code of the splash screen Init:
>
>

>LPARAMETERS pcSplash
>
>IF VARTYPE(pcSplash) == "C" AND NOT EMPTY(pcSplash)
>	THISFORM.lblSplash.Caption = pcSplash
>ENDIF
>
>* Show in upper half of screen, so that if an error box appears in middle of screen
>* it is not covered up by this.
>THISFORM.Left = INT((SYSMETRIC(1) - THISFORM.Width)/2)
>THISFORM.Top = INT((SYSMETRIC(2) - THISFORM.Width)/3)
>
>RETURN .T.
>

>
>No matter what I add after setting the label caption, it does not display. However, if I put a DOEVENTS after the frmSpplash.Show() (in the calling program), it shows.
>
>I tried recreating this as a separate little sample program, and cannot recreate. I hate having to call a DOEVENTS from the calling program (since I don't see why that is any different than doing it right inside the form).
>
>OK, tried one more thing...a DOEVENTS FORCE in the Activate event of the form. It worked. Lable displays perfectly right as soon as form displays. DOEVENTS FORCE in the Show() event did NOT make it display. This is weird, but it works now. I can add this to all our splash forms in the Activate and we should be OK. The DOEVENTS FORCE does a batter job than DOEVENTS too, so thank you for that tip!
>
>Thanks,
>JoeK