>I fully agree with you.
>I am doing it the same way as you, except that I missed the DoEvents with that it works fine. A little drawback: DoEvents penalizes the speed. Meanwhile have found an article in Wikis "Fast Do Events" by David Frankenbach, that seems to solve that as well. Will investigate.
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The article is irrelevant for VFP9. In VFP9 DoEvents does not wait for a Windows event by default.
--sb--