>I found it, for a reason that I don't know, you have to
>issue a REFRESH inmediatly after assigning the new value
>to your property, or value, if you don't do it in that
>moment it just doesn't work

This hasn't been my experience at all -- a Refresh should work at any time.

>let me be explicit in what
>I was doing, after moving the pointer in the table with
>Next,Prev,etc..., I call a method that made some calculations,
>set the value of various properties and then after that
>do a:
>=THISFORM.refresh()
>to avoid refreshing more than one time, got it?

Got it. Is that method moving the record pointer, by any chance? Again, it should really not matter _when_ you do the refresh. I'm mystified (for the moment)....