>>The first thing to do would be to declare and call the API function LockWindowUpdate

DECLARE INTEGER LockWindowUpdate IN Win32API;
>> INTEGER hWnd
>>= LockWindowUpdate(_SCREEN.HWnd)

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>I don't think LockWindowUpdate works with XP anymore. At least it didn't in the way I used to use it (hide the "Printing..." dialog during a report).

Well, this was off the top of my head.:-)

Merry Christmas, Fred.