>Does anyone know of a way to make Visual FoxPro release control to the operating system in the middle of a section of code, so that in can process whatever is in its event queue?
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>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.
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>Thank you in advance.

Although I have not found a documentation to support it, I have had some success with =INKEY(.5). I am running this resource PIG executable called DataVision to talk to a network controller. (I know, there are better ways, but the company had already bought this thing so I have to live with it.) When I start this program the resource meter (Windows 3.11) goes immediately to 100% no matter what it is doing. And you should see it complain when another program wants to do something with the processor. I was getting a timeout error when I ran some complicated reports so I put an =INKEY(.5) in the init method of the cursors. This solved the problem so maybe it will work for you too.

See ya
Dean Parkinson