>Hi Vlad
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>Would it not help to insert a short wait state, eg sleep(5), after each show() statement. I find that if VFP is very intensively busy it will not refresh / update the screen. If I insert a short wait state before starting the next intensive process then I can get VFP to update the screen first.
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Hi Jos,

That's what DOEVENTS() function is for. It returns control back as soon as all pending Windows events are executed.