>I wrote a test form, there were one message label control and one command
>button on the form. when the command button clicked I executed next
>statements:
> lnCount = 0
> SELECT 1
> SCAN ALL
> SCATTER MEMVAR
> SELECT 2
> APPEND BLANK
> GATHER MEMVAR
> SELECT 1
> lnCount = lnCount + 1
> IF lnCount > 50
> lnCount = 1
> ENDIF
> THISFORM.lbl_Message.Caption = REPLICATE(">",lnCount)
> ENDSCAN
>Those code works fine, But I try to use a timer control to do this kind of
>things.
>So I add an timer control on my form, and I refresh message label caption
>in the timer event;
>and change the command button clicked code to :
> Start the timer first then
> SELECT 1
> SCAN ALL
> SCATTER MEMVAR
> SELECT 2
> APPEND BLANK
> GATHER MEMVAR
> SELECT 1
> ENDSCAN
> Stop the timer last.
>I found the timer event not fired until the SCAN LOOP command executed,
>what's wrong ? Is there any one have a good idea or any 3rd-party .OCX can
>do this kind of things ? Please give me some help, I really need that !
>Thanks a lot !
>Catherina of AS SOTA Co.
>
>>
>> >I want to display a flow scroll bar
>> and process percentage when I execute a
>> >long time process, ex. SELECT, PACK command. Is there any one have a
>good
>> >idea?
>> >
>> >Catherina of AS SOTA Co.
>>
>> For your selects, you can always set talk on prior to issuing your select
>
>> statement which will activate Foxpro's default thermometer. As for
>> Packing, I hope somebody offers a good suggestion, because I, too would
>> like to hear ideas!
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>> John Adams
>>

In some cases where timers won't fire we use DOEVENTS VFP 5.0 only, sadly missing from 3.0