>Hi, Paul!
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>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.
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Yeah, I'm using VFP 7.

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>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.

Interesting, I always assumed AutoYield was an "ActiveX" thing, and have only used it in those cases. In any case, calling the Draw() method of the form seems to be working in my test app., so I'll probably use that approach. If it starts failing, I'll try AutoYield. Thanks for the response.