Well, sorry then. It was just an idea - Thought you said it did not work in the debugger. That has all the likes of autosize = FALSE

One last - and I may be wrong, it may have no effect on it - Is form.LockScreen = FALSE ?
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>>Stupid question ... You're sure that This.label1.AutoSize = TRUE ?
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>I've heard many times that there is no such thing as a stupid question!!!! That's a patently silly statement as an absolute, but in this case it isn't silly at all. I can't count the number of tech support calls in the early days of PC that were simply "It wasn't plugged in" or "Forgot to turn on the power strip."
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>In this case, however, I've triple checked and AutoSize really is TRUE.
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>>>A good thought.......Unfortunately, neither DOEVENTS nor INKEY() change the behavior. Setting the caption on the label does not seem to reset the width.
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>>>
>>>>Rich,
>>>>
>>>>I think vfp only updates the width when it's not busy
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>>lcOldCaption = This.label1.caption ---> "Action Text"
>>>>>lnOldWidth = This.label1.Width -------> 57
>>>>>This.label1.Caption = tcCaption ------> "Update Chassis Information"
>>>>
>>>>=INKEY(.0001)  && may help, or a doevents
>>>>
>>>>>lnNewWidth = This.label1.Width -------> 57 ??????????
>>>>>This.Width = This.Width + (lnNewWidth  - lnOldWidth)
>>>>
>>>>

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>>>>>I tried this and got the same result, even with the debugger turned on. Maybe my basic understanding is flawed.
>>>>>
>>>>>My assumption was that if the textbox AutoSize is set to .T. then the textbox will resize whenever the caption changes. If this is not correct, then is there something else I must do (beside try to calculate the width of the control manually) to reset the width? Right now, when I run through the debugger I see

>>>>>* Method SetCaption
>>>>>LPARAMETERS tcCaption
>>>>>lcOldCaption = This.label1.caption ---> "Action Text"
>>>>>lnOldWidth = This.label1.Width -------> 57
>>>>>This.label1.Caption = tcCaption ------> "Update Chassis Information"
>>>>>lnNewWidth = This.label1.Width -------> 57 ??????????
>>>>>This.Width = This.Width + (lnNewWidth  - lnOldWidth)
>>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>>Once again, all help greatly appreciated
>>>>>
>>>>>>Rich,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Create method SetCaption for container class and use it instead of settting label caption directly
>>>>>>

>>>>>>* Method SetCaption
>>>>>>LPARAMETERS tcCaption
>>>>>>lnOldWidth = This.label1.Width
>>>>>>This.label1.Caption = tcCaption
>>>>>>lnNewWidth = This.label1.Width
>>>>>>This.Width = This.Width + (lnNewWidth  - lnOldWidth)
>>>>>>

>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I've created a container class. It has a label class inside it. The label class has AutoSize set to TRUE. It also has an Assign method

>>>>>>>LPARAMETERS vNewVal
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>THIS.CAPTION = m.vNewVal
>>>>>>>This.Parent.Width = this.Width + this.Parent.image1.Width + 2

>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>If I step through this code, the container resizes properly.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>However, without stepping through the code, the Width of the label does not reset when it is given a new value. It retains the width of the label in the class definition.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I've tried putting This.Refresh and This.Parent.Refresh at various points in the method, but to no avail.
>>>>>>>