Hi Paul,

1) Create a new form's property to hold the info in the textbox, like cLastImportDate
2) Bind the textbox to that property
3) Call thisform.refresh() in the method called from your button
4) Do not have lots of code in thisform.refresh()

>Hello,
>
>I have a click event in Import button in myform.scx to append a record :
>
>

>
> SELECT 0
>   USE AuditCls
>   APPEND BLANK
>   replace userid WITH gcNovellId, sdate WITH DATETIME(), numRec WITH   nTltRecs,ieflag WITH "I"
>   USE
>
>**and  the TXTLASTIMPORTDATE textbox Init event in myform.scx :
>
>LOCAL lcLastImportDate,lctestdate
>
>SELECT TOP 1 Sdate,userid ;
>	FROM AuditCls ;
>	GROUP BY 1 ;
>	ORDER BY 1 DESC WHERE IEFLAG = "I" ;
>	INTO CURSOR top1
>
>SELECT top1
>
>lcLastImportDate = sdate
>
>lcLastImportDate = TRANSFORM(lcLastImportDate,'@YL') +' by '+userid
>
>thisform.TXTLASTIMPORTDATE.Value=lcLastImportDate
>
>Thisform.txtLastImportDate.Refresh()
>
>

>
>Each I append a record to auditcls table, I want my txtlastimportdate to update instantly but ThisForm.txtlastImportDate.refresh() does not work.
>
>Any help to fix my codes would be appreciated ?
>
>TIA