>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'
>
>* 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 ?


I do something similar to Jeff...

WAIT WINDOW NOWAIT "Lengthy processing"
* Processing goes here
WAIT CLEAR

I've never had a problem with it.