>>How about making your own messagebox equivalent that times out? just make a modal form, with a timer on it to close the form after however much time you choose. If you call the form with:
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>>DO FORM mymessbox TO lvar
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>>IN the form somewhere set lvar to whatever result you get from pressing either button...
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>>And in the Unload RETURN lvar
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>>Jerry
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>Hi Jerry -
>that sounds great, but where to I put the timer? I did look for a timer
>property in the FORM and could not find one. can you give me a small code
>sample?
>
>thanks

The timer is a control you drop on the form. You set timer properties just like any other control -- like the amount of time to elapse before the timer fires. If you want the timer to fire after 5 seconds, you set that property to 5000 (1000 per second). In the timer, you would put something like ThisForm.Release().