Further to what Peter says, the timer could be in an invisible form, e.g. the actual reminder dialogue, and the timer makes it visible when time's up.


>Hi
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>While my main application, which has quite a few forms, is running, I wish to launch a Reminder form when a cetain date and time are reached (a DateTime field is in my Reminder table).
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>How can I monitor the date and time in the backgroound for this to happen?
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>Thanks in advance.
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>Raymond Larche