Hi, Paul!

Are you using VFP7? In VFP7 and in all builds (service packs) for it there is a serious omission - DOEVENTS does not works as it worked in VFP6. Also in VFP6 DOEVENTS is slow without workarounds.

In my programs I usually do following:

_VFP.AutoYield = .T.
...start a loop. This usually takes a few commands enough to refresh everything automatically

    _VFP.AutoYield = .F.
    ... make a few step of loop, say, 50

    ... if 50 steps made
        _VFP.AutoYield = .T.
        ... show progress and do other calculations
   ... end of loop calculations
... continue loop

When AutoYield is .T., VFP refreshes many things automatically as code lines execute. If you have a few code lines there, it always refreshes screens correctly. Then you _VFP.AutoYield is set back to .F. to have better performance for next 50 steps of loop.

I used this in VFP6, though this might also help in VFP7, ince DOEVENTS does not works ok.

I also reported this to MS as a bug for VFP7, but I do not know if it will be fixed in VFP8.

HTH.

>>Did you try to add DOEVENTS?
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>
>Yep.