Ok; as I told, original Nigel's utility has some limitations but you could add features as you need. For instance, to release it you may add to form.keypress, form.click and form.deactivate the line:

thisform.release

It is called like /DO FORM mywaitwind NAME frmWait WITH "Text to display"/;
so to release it in nowait mode you should issue instead of wait clear:

frmWait.release

In the past I modified the utility and add timewait parameter and others:

LPARAMETERS pcMessage, pnTimeWait,pnBorderColor,pnBackColor,;
pnForeColor,pcTextFontName, pnTextFontSize, pcTextFontStyle,pnFlashType


>Thanks for the tip, Yuri. I found another wait window class in the downloads section besides the one you reference and checked them both out. One simply repositions an actual WAIT WINDOW command, so has no color control, while the other relies on a hard-coded programmatic call to the "waitform's" release method to destroy it. So still no solution to mimicking WAIT WINDOW NOWAIT behavior.