Coming late to the party!

I have had the same problem for years. For minor operations the 
performance loss of the flickering cursor could be ignored but for
larger querries it can be a real pain.

What I usualy do is:

1) Make a pop-upp custom window informing the user "working..."

2) Move the curser outside of Paradox

3) When the operation is finished, close the pop-ut

4) Move the cursor back.

Some users didn't like the moving of the cursor and they simply prefered 
to move the cursor out of Paradox manually.

Anders