Don, you should not need to use a refresh or "do events" to assure a label caption is updated. I never had a situation where I needed to use those guys - and I am not sure why they are used or what they do - but they should not(?) be required to "flush" a caption update.

Perhaps "progress" is too fast?

I knew a "team" once - that put little delay loops in output cycles so the user could get a glimpse of the progress bar progressing!

Use a small file and pop a messagbox with the record number or look at it through debugger.
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>I'm converting an existing application and have created a form that has a label and cancel button on it. There's a method defined on the form that handles the main processing. The label is used to display progress of the update through the file by showing the current record number in the database. As the form executes the label isn't refreshing properly.... not sure what's wrong.
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>thanks in advance,