>>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.
Hi,

Yes I noticed, at least I cannot find any significant speed improvement in this case - 'intercept' a scan...endscan. So must live with this slower performance issue.

Thanks for confirming.

Koen