Strange Problem: Im developing under Win XP with Labwin 8.1
My prog does the following: (timer controlled): 
- read some numeric controlls (read back user input).
- read data from serial interface
- decide if screen output has to be made to a listbox
- return
This works perfectly using windows XP
Running Win2k SP4: the following happens: no textoutput is generated except 
- either the mouse is moved 
-or the main window LOST (!) focus. Then everythings works fine.
This can be repoduced on any machine we have.
My WORKAROUND: 
run 
    GetNumListItems(panelHandle,PANEL_DISPLAY,&iDummy);        // sorgt dafür, dass die Liste immer
    if(iDummy>0)
    {
        SetCtrlIndex(panelHandle,PANEL_DISPLAY,iDummy-1);        // mit nach unten scrollt!
    }
before the numeric values are read and everything works fine.
Assumption: For any reason Win2K does not read back the numeric controlls properly if there is no user interaction.
For clarification: the user input is not changed at any time while running.
Hope anyone can help or provide me with a better workaround
DoS