Subject Re: How to flash a message without waiting From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid> Date Wed, 25 Aug 2021 08:23:55 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 2021/08/24 16:04, Mervyn Bick wrote: > For a program I use showprogress.prg  which opens a small form on the > screen.  The program and a test program are attached. > > Oops.  In the example program I forgot to add the line _app.executeMessages() in the loop. _app.allowYldOnMsg = true is set in showprogress.prg but without forcing dBASE to regularly execute the executeMessages() method dBASE can become unresponsive after a while. showprogress("Open") n = 0 do while not q.rowset.endofset     q.rowset.next()     n++     cN = '  '+n+ '  records processed'     oProgress.msg.text = cN     inkey(0.2)     _app.executeMessages() enddo showprogress("Close") Mervyn.