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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
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01507393
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>>Hi,
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>>When I started developing in VFP (I think around 1998) I read somewhere that it is a good idea to call .LockScreen .T. before calling form.refresh(). So I have in a lot of places in my application call to method Thisform.MyRefresh(). And the code in the MyRefresh() is
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>>thisform.Lockscreen = .T.
>>thisform.refresh()
>>thisform.Lockscreen= .F.
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>>Does it still make sense to keep this code? Or with the hardware we have today the refresh is just as fast with or without Lockscreen?
>
>I think it's OK to keep this code especially if you have some heavy code in some objects refresh methods. Otherwise you can remove it.

I will have to check if I have any objects with refresh method (can't think of any right off the top). Thank you.
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