>>Why don't you use the Wait Window command?
>
>Don't recall if this is changed in VFP9, but I remember there was a limit of 255 characters you can show in WAIT WINDOW.

Yes, but I thought that in this case the meaning was simply to show a progress? I do like this all the time

Scan while something
    wait window Field1 + ' is being processed' nowait
    do something
endscan
Wait clear