>Nadya,
>
>In VFP3 they did, and they participated in the refresh event, this functionality was removed in VFP5 (I think mostly for performance reasons).
>

Thanks for the info, David. When I answered the original question, I vaguely remembered a thread about some problems with dynamically update label caption. Unfortunately, it was long time ago and didn't recall details...

Anyway, textbox class, which looks like label (no border) would be great here.

>>>>Sometimes you also have to do
>>>>thisform.label1.refresh() in order to show this change.
>>>
>>>Labels do not have a Refresh method...
>>
>>That's too bad :))