Sylvain

Thanks for the suggestion. But, unless my base classes are hosed, labels don't have a refresh() method. I also did ThisForm.Refresh to no avail.

>Try adding THISFORM.Label1.Refresh() after changing the caption.
>
>HTH
>
>>Thanks for the suggestion, I tried this;
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>>ThisForm.LockScreen=.F.
>>Thisform.Label1.Caption='lengthy process .. please wait'
>>* lengthy data crunching commands here
>>

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