>>>I have a function call that takes some time to run. I want to turn the mouse pointer from an arrow to the hour glass until the process is complete ( some users still insist that if the arrow is present, nothing is happening ). I know that in VB the process is simple, however I am having difficulty in VFP 5.0.
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>>You can just use _screen.mousepointer = 11 at begin of run, then set back to 1 at end...
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>Probably want to set it to 0 (zero) at the end.

Either one - I haven't found any difference, since whatever object you're over takes precedence over _screen after processing...