>I have always battled this problem, so I'm going to the experts for the final say so on how to fix this. I have buttons that I want to set enabled to FALSE when a button is pressed and have hidden text become visible that says somthing like "Searching..." to let the user know that something is happening. I was told to use DOEVENTS after the code in the CLICK event that I reset the states of the buttons and the visible text, but the rest of the code in the CLICK event completes before the visual changes are made. How can I force the visual changes to happen before the rest of the code is executed?
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>Thanks!
>Colombo.

Hi Jim. VFP does not refresh the form properly when it is in a very cpu intensive process. So if you make some change and immediately hit your processing loop the changes may not be reflected straight away.

So you need to make whatever visual changes to the form you want and then do either (1) pause your app with, for example, a quick INKEY(0.1) or (b) issue a DOEVENTS to tell VFP and Windows to process outstanding events (ie your form changes).