Thanks for your suggestion ! BTW, where can I get Rick Strahl's wwTherm class for VFP 3.0 ? Catherina of AS SOTA Co. > > >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. >