>Thanks for the suggestion George.
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>I realize that my VFP app has no way of "seeing" the messagebox and hence change the caption as the user waits to respond. However, I thought that was where the Windows API calls come in handy. I think that I should be able to get a handle to the window messagebox, but once I do, then what?
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Mike,

Please forgive me, but I didn't think what you where trying to do through enough. How well the following will work, however, is up to you. Here's how...

First, you need two API function declarations

DECLARE INTEGER FindWindow IN Win32API;
  STRING @lpClass, STRING @lpTitle
DECLARE INTEGER SetWindowText IN Win32API;
  INTEGER hWnd, STRING @lpString

Next you'll need a timer, with something like the following in the Timer event

LOCAL lctitle, lnhwnd
* Naturally, you'll need a form property named as below and inititalized
* to the value of the timeout
lctitle = "Time remaining " + TRANSFORM(ThisForm.nSecondsLeft)
lnhwnd = FindWindow(0, @lctitle)
IF lnhwnd > 0
  ThisForm.nSecondsLeft = ThisForm.nSecondsLeft - 1
  lctitle = "Time remaining " + TRANSFORM(ThisForm.nSecondsLeft)
  = SetWindowText(lnhwnd, @lctitle)
ENDIF

Simply enable the timer prior and set the nSecondsLeft property priot to calling the MESSAGEBOX() function. Note that I did not test this with varying levels of modality available to the MESSAGEBOX() function and that I did not test in run-time mode, simply in design time.