>I believe the "DoEvents" command in Visual Basic accomplishes this, but I have been unable to find a way in Visual Foxpro, other than the rather cumbersome method of ending the section of code, and creating a timer (set to a bare minimum interval) to pick up processing again. This may sound easy, but it means having to move my code around in a very non-intuitive way and is fairly painful.

u don't have this in VFP3.0 (AFIAK VFP 5.0 will solve this)
sorry i couldn't be of more help

Arnon