>>>Pat
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>>This is a kludge, but you could add a logical condition to the application or >other object, and manually change its value in the debugger as soon as it >opened. I've never tested disabling timers in the debugger but I imagine it >could be done.
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>I guess that's the easiest and quickest thing to do. Thanks George for dropping some light.
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>Pat

Just a side note, Pat. It sounds like if the value of some VFP system variable or function (SET('STEP') for example) changed, and you could conditionally execute some code based on that, it would be exactly what you're looking for.