Subject Re: TextLabel From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid> Date Mon, 17 Jan 2022 16:09:18 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 2022/01/17 13:56, Steven Ellis wrote: > Mervyn, > Best I can tell it was a screen refresh issue.  I put a wait clause in and I could see the text labels go disappear after setting to false. The program was looping through the database 10 times (one of my other posts) immediately after the false commands.  btw the local sql vs OOP looping is lightning fast to the tune of less than a second vs a minute and a half). Your code works for me.  It sets the visible property of each textlabel true and this is confirmed by your print statements.  You don't report any errors so, without seeing all your code, I have no idea why it wouldn't make your textlabels visible. As Akshat has pointed out, anytime you can use localSQL aggregating functions to solve a problem it WILL be faster than letting dBASE loop through a table. Web-News via the link on the dBASE website gives immediate access to these news group.  It does, however, become a PITA to use especially if you post messages in more than one newsgroup.  The newsgroups are also available as an NNTP feed from news.dbase.com and the few minutes effort needed to set up an NNTP feed will be well spent.  No username or password is required so basically just use default values and personal preferences. If your email client doesn't support NNTP (Windows Live Mail does, the newer Windows Mail doesn't) there are plenty of email clients "out there" that do.  I use Thunderbird but there are others. Mervyn.