>>Bernard,
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>>VFP is single threaded and anything you do to pause execution will prevent keyboard entry. You can't get both worlds in VFP. You could write a DLL is C++ and call it form VFP and let it do the pausing and watching for input.
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>I dont have C++ but what about an ActiveX written in VB5 to do the same thing -
>Timing and pause.??

Bernard,

Try using VB for an activex. The issue is that VFP is a single thread and if you pause it, no matter how you do, it is the entire thread that gets paused.