Igor,

>VFP 5.0 has very powerfull forms, yet in this partricular case I want to accomplish task without forms.

Honestly, that's a silly constraint to put on yourself.

Create a form, put a single Label or Textbox that is the same width as the form with it's alignment set to center. Let the Form.Init() accept as a parameter the message and then:

lparameter pcText
this.Label1.Caption = pcText

to call it:

do form Messenger with "The text to display"

This gives you a nice reuseable component.

You can also use the builtin MessageBox() function to accomplish the task.