I see that VFP 5.0a still has that problem with not always updating the screen when its told to (like ver 2.6).

Lets say I have code like this:

Thisform.Label1.Caption='lengthy process .. please wait'

* lengthy data crunching commands here


The problem is the 'please wait' caption is not displayed until *after* the data crunching is finished, which of course defeats the whole idea.

I've worked out a kludge for this by defining a Timer that fires a KEYBOARD ('ENTER') and adding a wait the the code as follows:

Thisform.Label1.Caption='lengthy process .. please wait'

SMTPForm.DummyTimer.Enabled = .T.
SMTPForm.DummyTimer.Interval = 500
wait '' to dummy
SMTPForm.DummyTimer.Enabled = .F.

* lengthy data crunching commands here

While this does get the 'please wait' to display while the user is having to wait, it just does'nt seem a proper OOP way to handle the problem, does anyone have a more elegant solution ?