It was always a command rather than a function, and for some reason many folks added the parens.

For VFP8, we added the FORCE clause to give the VFP6 DOEVENTS behavior, but now we don't allow the parens anymore.

>UPDATE, never mind, I just removed the () and it works.
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>I must have missed something, because I am recompiling all of my projects in VFP8 and any apps that have a DOEVENTS() command bomb during compilation. Is it no longer supported? If so, what do we use instead of doevents() in VFP8?
>TIA,
>Tracy