The timer is a control, not a property, but a control, on the form controls toolbar. The Interval property is how often it fires, in milliseconds,so for 30 seconds you'd put in 30000 as a value. The event that gets fired every Interval is the Timer event (in this case, perhapsyou would have Thisform.release in the timer event).

MS has a KB article about returning a value from a form, Q126956 (you can pick it off at www.microsoft.com/kb). In a nutshell, it consists of calling the form with the TO clause (ie DO FORM selfdestruc_choice TO glwill_we_die) and returning the value with RETURN in the Unload of the form.

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Jerry