>>What's the code of invoking thermometer? Can you put doevents in this code and check, if it makes the difference?
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>>What VFP version you're using?
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>Nadya,
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>Thanks for responding. This is VFP version 7 (hence the category of the post). What's weird is that DOEVENTS did nothing to refresh the display of the thermometer. If I insert INKEY(.01, "H") to force a pause, then the display updates just fine.
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>I'm at a loss as to why I have to force a pause to get the display to update when this isn't the case in the other situations where I use the class.
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>The other difference I just thought of is that the thermometer is getting updated while looping through a cursor (result of SELECT), as opposed to just a table.
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>Laterness,
>Jon

What is _VFP.AutoYield property set to? Can you show your code?