>>I see that VFP 5.0a still has that problem with not always updating the screen when its told to (like ver 2.6).
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>>Lets say I have code like this:
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>>Thisform.Label1.Caption='lengthy process .. please wait'
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>>* 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.
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>>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:
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>>

>>Thisform.Label1.Caption='lengthy process .. please wait'
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>>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 ?
>Normally it would refresh as changed. Might there be lockscreen blocking it ?
>Cetin

Cetin

Thanks for the suggestion, I tried this;

ThisForm.LockScreen=.F.
Thisform.Label1.Caption='lengthy process .. please wait'
* lengthy data crunching commands here

But it made no difference, so I'm assuming lockscreen is not the problem.