I think the problem is that your timer may not be firing at all or very unreliably. VFP timers are UI constructs that are driven through an Event loop that probably isn't there when you run as an EXE.

Also at the very least your timer must be an object of the COM object. You are creating the timer in the Init and it gets released immediately. Try making it property nad hten referencing THIS.oTimer instead.



+++ Rick ---




>Good afternoon
>
>I have two class definintions in the same program file, one of which is a timer. When the timer event fires, it calls a method in the first class, which fails. VFP complains it cannot find the called method of a public class, created from an exe ("Object oObjTestCom Not found").
>
>When oObjTestCom is created from the prg file, everything works perfectly.
>

>oObjTestCom = CREATEOBJECT("MyTestCom")   && Everything is ducky, Life is good.
>

>
>But, when compiled into an exe named "MyComExe" and called like this:
>

>oObjTestCom = CREATEOBJECT("MyComExe.MyTestCom")  && Problem. Get coffee refill.
>

>The Object is created, Proc1, Proc2 and ProcCreateTimer all work.
>BUT, when the oMyTimer event fires, VFP errors, complaining it
>cannot find oObjTestCom.
>
>The code below is abbreviated, and I am hoping that someone will be able to spot the problem straight away. Thanks for taking the time to look.
>
>Thanks !
>Don Lowrey
>
>
>File MyTestCom.prg has this (psuedo) code:
>

>Define MyTestCom AS Custom OlePublic
>Procedure Init
>  This.CreateTimer
>EndProc
>Proc1..does stuff..EndProc
>Proc2..does other stuff..EndProc
>Procedure CreateTimer
>  * Tried variations with and without declaring PUBLIC oMyTimer
>  oMyTimer = CREATEOBJECT("MyTimer")
>EndProc
>EndDefine
>
>Define Class MyTimer As Timer  && with and without OlePublic
>  Set Enabled .t. and Interval to an int val, such as 30000
>  Procedure Timer
>    oMyTestCom.Proc2  && This line fails from exe "Object oTestClass Not found"
>  EndProc
>EndDefine
>

>
>Notes: When running from the executable:
>a. We know the class MyTimer gets created because the Timer event fires.
>b. However, from the VFP Object Browser, only the MyTestCom class is shown.
>c. In the DeBug window, oObjTestCom is shown as an object, but the Methods are not exposed. Also oMyTimer is not shown.
>d. We know the exe is running, because it is shown in the Task Manager, Processes Tab.
>*