From: info@sundialservices.com   
      
   Sundial Services wrote:   
   >"Little old sleep()" causes the Windows message queue to be   
   > emptied, and by specifying an insignificant number of milliseconds' delay,   
   > we assure that the Paradox process gets re-dispatched.   
      
   I guess I should clarify that ...   
      
   "sleep()" by-itself will loop until the Windows message-queue at that   
   particular moment in time is empty.  All of the subroutine-calls that might   
   magically occur within the Windows system for all of the then-pending   
   messages will therefore occur, but there's still a lot of "variability"   
   that would still remain .. a large number of "well, it happened once but I   
   can't make it happen again" cases, yet to be debugged.   
      
   By introducing a delay, even 10/1000 of a second, you force Paradox   
   to "yield" to Windows.  Before the Paradox program will start running on   
   your computer-system again, Windows will have been given an /explicit/   
   opportunity to "really, once-and-for-all" dispose of any and all "pending"   
   work that might yet remain to be attended to.  In other words, if that form   
   is "halfway in the middle of becoming 'open,'" by the time this   
   inconsequential "delay" is finished, the form will most-likely now be "all   
   the way, really-and-for-true 'open.'"   
      
   Many precious hair-follicles might thereby be saved.  :-D   
      
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