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I would like to display a counter as my program goes through some nested repeat statements. I have been using code that looks like this but nothing shows up in the field until the whole thing is done. Since there are over 93,000 'counts' so I don't want to slow the program down unnecessarily.

Larry

There will be some slowdown with this method, but if you put a

wait 0 with messages

in the loop somewhere the counter should then visibly update. wait with messages gives the engine some breathing room to complete things (like updating the display) but there will be an impact on your app. You might consider not updating on every single loop and only update the counter field every hundred or so. (or after a period of time or whatever)

Thanks Sturgis.

That was perfect. I actually am using 300.

Larry