Hi Bruce,

Thanks a lot for your advice. I'll check it out again.

>_screen.mousepointer = 11 && hourglass - This is also a good point. I know I did similar it in VB, but was not sure how to do it in VFP, so I took George Tasker code using API functions :)

The message I already put (in wait window), but I like the idea of statusbar too.

>>Hi everybody,
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>> Today I noticed a strange thing in one of my application:
>>I made REPLACE ALL named with ' ' in BldMstr, where ~ 5000 records.
>>It took some time ~ 20-25 sec., but it didn't show the wait mouse cursor... Does the default Replace command change the mouse cursor?
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>No, it doesn't in vfp5, but in vfp6, the hourglass should kick on after a few seconds.
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>In vfp5, I just added a message on the status bar indicating it would take a minute, and
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>_screen.mousepointer = 11 && hourglass
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>before all the slow things like that. In vfp6, you shouldn't have to change to hourglass (but the message is still a good idea).