>Hi All,
>
>I have a modal form I am using to build some files and display the results to the users. The processing is broken down into a number of methods. Before each method is called I assign a new value to a label field on the form and refresh the screen thereby telling the user what is going on. This all works fine except when the method executes a SQL statement. Then the label is not refreshed until after the method has executed. Here is the code:
>
>ThisForm.lbl1.caption = "Running some SQL."
>ThisForm.refresh
>ThisForm.RunSomeSQL
>
>The label caption is not refreshed until after the RunSomeSQL method has completed. Let me repeat that the above code works when the method does not execute a SQL statement. This is too wierd to me.
>
>Thanks

Another workaround is to use:

jold_talk=set('talk')
set talk on

*define your label message
*refresh your form
*then run the sql statement

set talk &jold_talk



the user will see a query thermometer...

**note, this will cause a very tiny performance decrease, but the user will swear that the query is running faster :-)


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