You'd think this would be faster, but NO!!!!!! [Resolved]

[SMcNeill]

IF h = ASC(g.flagship) OR h = g.m_asc THEN
        IF h = ASC(g.flagship) THEN
            ii = 1
            EXIT FOR
        ELSE
            ii = 2
            EXIT FOR
        END IF
    END IF

The above here, just seems dang weird to me.

IF h = 1 OR h = 2 THEN <--  This says only of h is 1 or 2 then we do inside this block
    IF h = 1 THEN
        do_whatever  <-- so h is 1 here and we do something
    ELSE
        do_junk    <-- h *has* to be 2 here to do junk.  (Otherwise we wouldn't have passed the first IF)
    END IF
END IF

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Now my question is: WTH is the point of that outer loop to even begin with???

IF h = 1 THEN do_whatever
IF h = 2 THEN do_junk

PRESTO!  Done, clean, with several fewer IF checks and SCREEN calls...

What am I missing here?  Why do you IF check for 2 conditions and then IF check for each of those conditions independently? 

Personally, I'd just SELECT CASE the code and keep it simple.

SELECT CASE SCREEN(j, k + i)
  CASE IS = ASC(g.flagship): ii =1: EXIT FOR
  CASE IS = g.m_asc: ii = 2: EXIT FOR
END SELECT