Thanks Thomas,
I'll test using doevents as well. Question, what is autoyield set to in incorporating your doevents that was successful?

>Hi Tracy,
>
>I believe you are on the right path.
>
>In my port I have to massage a few VFP-screenobjects.
>worked like a charm in the first few tries while running
>under the debugger, but failed totally when running normally.
>
>That points to wait state snafu's, anf I resolved it with
>DoEvents, but the sleep API and a frustration born
>Wait wind "Scheisse" timeout 0.1
>worked as well.
>
>I stay with doevents because it should take less time
>if there are only few events to handle (my situation).
>
>If there are no activeX controls involved, IMHO Doevents
>is the better bet, but i can "hang" if you are using
>treeview (either MS or dBi)
>
>HTH
>
>thomas