>If you do a memory intensive (not disk intensive) process where you can see the process moving by on the screen, say for example a progress meter, there seems to be a short delay every half second. I figure this is an internal foxpro timer firing, as I can duplicate this behavior outside the package.
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>Could someone more familiar with the inner workings of fox please enlighten me as to what this timer is doing, and if I can turn it off ? I'm aiming for the fastest (and *smoothest*) possible processing during a certain procedure and this timer is hindering that.
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>Perhaps I'm completely off base, but I don't think so.

Chris,

If I had to make a WAG, I'd say what you're seeing is VFP responding to the normal flow of Windows messages. Everything, even in a SDI app, is processed through the main VFP window. This means that VFP has to handle all the re-drawing of its controls and so on.