On Jul 28, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Robert Purves wrote:

> 
> William Simon wrote:
> 
>> The instructions print and box fill will frequently fail to execute until the program stops .
>> 
>> This can sometimes be helped by following a print instruction with a dummy print such as
>> 
>> print "";
>> 
>> At other times even the above cheat will not cause a box to fill for example until the
>> program ends. A delay instruction following the print or box fill does not cure the problem.
> 
> 
> This demo shows the problem that you describe.
> 
> window 1
> //FlushWindowBuffer _FBAutoFlushOff
> print "Hello ";
> print "world"
> //FlushWindowBuffer
> delay 2000
> do
> HandleEvents
> until gFBQuit
> 


Note that removing the delay 2000 also fixes the problem because it allows HandleEvents to execute. If Robert’s demo mirrors your code’s issue, make sure the code’s long absence from the event loop is intentional.

Brian S