Does the following help?
Re: Speeding up DoEvents() Thread #142550 Message #142701

good luck


>Hi all,
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>This may or may not be searchable; I unfortunately do not own a subscription so forgive me if this has been beaten to death.
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>I have an odd behavior that I've been trying to track down for some time now.
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>Basically, if my mouse cursor is inside the boundaries of the Foxpro window all of our processes (data intensive or not) run faster. If my mouse is outside the window (on screen #2 for example) everything slows down.
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>As an aside, using an Ole control on a form and holding the mouse cursor inside the boundaries of that tree also slows down performance.
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>We are not altering the thread priority of fox, nor do we have any mouse-handling code, nor timers. This behavior happens every time it's tried and results in roughly a 50% difference in performance on several different computers.
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>Any help is appreciated,
>Chris