>This is a problem that I had thought was trivial, but it confounds the users. I have an app that does passthrough queries to an AS/400 that take several minutes to complete. While this is going on, fox is unresponsive, which is expected and allowable. However, it will not consistantly bring up the hourglass....and to make things worse, it puts (not responding) in the caption of the window, which makes the user go "Aw hell...it's busted" and end the task.
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>Does anyone know how I can make the hourglass come on like it is supposed to?

You might be able to manipulate the .MousePointer property of an appropriate form, control, etc.

Another approach you could take would be to run the SPT query asynchronously (see SQLSETPROP()). This would mean you'd have to check periodically whether the query is still running or if it has finished. You could do this with a timer - say, check every 5 seconds and update a message that says "Query has been running for mm:ss - still running - please wait". A timer is lightweight on CPU so VFP would not become "unresponsive" in the Task Manager sense. Then once the query has completed you continue onwards.