I think you can RELEASE (m.lcVarName) and I'm pretty sure you can do PUBLIC (m.lcVarName) too. Side effect of avoiding & as much as possible.

>>>I know there are other solutions to this problem, but there have been so many times when I want to have better control over event processing, so my question is how can I programmatically trigger an event to be processed in the event loop instead of immediately?
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>>Among simple tricks is to have an inactive timer which you will activate, have it do what you want after some milliseconds and deactivate again.
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>Drew Speedie described something he called a "hand_grendade" which did just that.
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>Here's our code (sorry about the dependencies, but they're easy enough to figure out):
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>LPARAMETERS tcCommand, tnDelay, toThis, toThisform
>LOCAL lcThisVarname, lcThisFormVarname, loTimer
>
>tnDelay = Param_Val(tnDelay,200)
>lcScript = tcCommand
>lcCRLF = CHR(13)+CHR(10)
>
>IF VARTYPE(toThis) = "O"
>	lcThisVarname = "hg_" + SYS(2015)
>	RELEASE &lcThisVarname
>	PUBLIC &lcThisVarname
>	STORE toThis TO (lcThisVarname)
>	lcScript = STRTRAN(lcScript,"this.",lcThisVarname + ".",1,-1,1)
>	lcScript = lcScript + lcCRLF + "RELEASE " + lcThisVarname
>ENDIF
>
>IF VARTYPE(toThisform) = "O"
>	lcThisFormVarname = "hg_" + SYS(2015)
>	RELEASE &lcThisFormVarname
>	PUBLIC &lcThisFormVarname
>	STORE toThisform TO (lcThisFormVarname)
>	lcScript = STRTRAN(lcScript,"thisform.",lcThisFormVarname + ".",1,-1,1)
>	lcScript = lcScript + lcCRLF + "RELEASE " + lcThisFormVarname
>ENDIF
>
>lcScript = "lparameters toTimer" + lcCRLF + lcScript
>
>_SCREEN.oapp.addproperty("oHGTimer",NEWOBJECT("timer_adhoc","proctrls.vcx","",lcScript,tnDelay,.T.,.T.,.T.))
>