I have a form that does a great deal of updating of on-screen information, during a 45,000 row WHILE loop. The updates are done with the PROPERTY cid CAPTION .varname command
Each component being updated has either a counter or a progress message displayed in it. Users see the updating captions before it gets to the WHILE loop, then see nothing but an hour glass until the end of the WHILE loop, then suddenly all of the controls show their final values. (Two of them should have changed 45,000 times by then.) When I SET TRACE ON, and trace through it, I see each update on the form. When I let it run, I do not. WHILEOPT is set off. Data type for the variable is always TEXT (a text variable set from a counter with (CTXT(.vintegervariable)) Once upon a time this form worked fine. I'm not sure when it stopped. The users use this about 3 times a year. Before I spend the time building a demonstration with RBTI data, I wanted to see if anyone else had seen this and/or solved it. Thanks for any insights and ideas. Bill
