This procedure is supposed to flash the minimised title bar. at least that is my intention. I have it in the timer event.

firstly i dont know if this is the ideal approach,
secondly the line _screen.icon=.... just makes my computer slow down to such an extent that i cannot even stop the process from the taskbar.

what am i doing wrong, what is a better approach?

Lcnts=.t.

do whil Lcnts

Ltm=right(time(),2)
Ltmv=val(Ltm)
if int(Ltmv/2)=(Ltmv/2)
_screen.caption=''
_screen.icon='\picture\disk06.ico'
else
_screen.caption='Something Else Here'
_screen.icon=''
endif

Lws=_screen.windowstate

if Lws=2
Lcnts=.f.
endif

enddo