>Hello Fox Gang!
>
>Today's question.....
>
>How to shutdown an app using a timer.
>
>Given I have an app, and I have a timer running in the base application form.
>
>The timer, when it fires, looks for a textfile in the root folder. If the file is there, it causes the app to begin to shutdown....
>
>Here is the relevant code...
>
>IF timetoshutdown
> WAIT CLEAR
> THISFORM.RELEASE()
>ENDIF
>
>But, since there may be many forms on the screen at this time (someone may have left the app running when they went home)... I would rather have a shutdown routine instead of just THISFORM.RELEASE().
>
>Any ideas of a shutdown routine? I am assuming it would have to be able to drill down into the forms to shut them all down???
>
>Thanks!
>Tommy

Well, I 'spect you have some command you invoke when the user presses Alt-F4, or selects "File | Quit". Just use the same command.

Note: In my case, that would be the Visual Extend method, goProgram.OnQuit(), where goProgram is the application object. However, this method is not foolproof; some user may have pending changes; in this case, .OnQuit() will not quit immediately, but ask the user for input. It DOES work most of the time.

FAQ #7896 by Ramon Jaquez, which I only started using recently, has also proved immensely valuabe for those maintenance tasks. (Note: It says Windows NT, but also works under Windows XP; you DO need administrative privileges for the server.)

With this latter FAQ, you can tell who is using a particular file, and ask just those users to please close a window, or the application.