>Dera All,
>I have a project with a main form. this main form is AS TOP LEVEL FORM with a menu in it. in the below of this form i put one image control that is Visible = .F.
>i put a timer on this form with Interval = 60000 , in the timer event i have below code:
>

>Select MsgTable
>locate for !ReadMsg
>if found()
>   MainForm.Image1.Visible = .T.
>else
>   MainForm.Image1.Visible = .F.
>endif
>

>
>but when i am in an input mode on a form that i run it from menu selection ( Modal , In Top-level form ) when timer event occure, i lost the focus in this form.
>what i must to do?
>Thanks and excuse me for my ENGLISH !

I don't know the answer, but your code can be simplified quite a bit, as follows:

This part:

if found()
   MainForm.Image1.Visible = .T.
else
   MainForm.Image1.Visible = .F.
endif

can be written in a single line:

MainForm.Image1.Visible = found()