>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.

You can use SCAN WHILE or SCAN FOR and an expression that returns .T. so that it will scan the whole file. That expression could be a User Defined Function that every 10 records adds a ">" to that message.

I use Rick Strahl's wwTherm class for VFP 3, with an addition that I hope will get into FoxTalk (around MAY due to publication delays).

You can AND your logical expression to the front of your existing FOR/WHILE expression so that it gets executed (remember VFP has short circuit evaluation) and yet doesn't disturb the program too much.