>I now this has to be simple but I've sent nearly an hour reading the "HELP" subjects and haven't found it, yet.
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>I've written a program that creates a timer object. While in the development mode, if I re-run the program I get an error that the object already exists. How to it test to see if this object exists?
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>Thanks,
>Robert

If this timer is a child of some other object you could use PEMSTATUS(), but if it is a stand alone object Sergey's suggestion is the way (it works no metter how you define this object) :-)