Paul...

That's a very good point, one I hadn't really considered. I'm going to give the timer a try, and see if I have any noticeable degradation in performance.

Scott

>>David...
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>>I was concerned that a timer would affect performance, especially when I'm doing some serious querying that's grabbing a lot of system resources. Either the queries would be slowed down by the timer, or the timer would be stuttering because of the lack of resources that VFP will devote to it vs. the query. In either event, it would be better to simply tell the hardware that this is a flashing component than to repeatedly tell it to flash."going stupid". :)
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>Just a thought on hardware flashing :
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>If you rely on the hardware to do the flashing, what confidence can you or the user have that the application has not died. I've seen many dead DOS applications with flashing bits & pieces, due to the hardware controlling the flashing. If you want the user to have confidence in progress occuring, then whatever form it takes, it must be under the control of the application.
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>Paul