I suspect that the line of code inside the IF is never executed. The only time it will be executed is if the Paint event is executed at HH:00, HH:15, HH:30 or HH:45, which is less likely.

Why do you need to set the Timer in the Paint event? Shouldn`t this code go into Init or something similar?

I would calculate the difference in seconds between now and the next 15 minutes increment in the Init and set the Timer Interval property to that value. When the Timer fire, I would the execute the line of code you have inside the Fire event so that it would now fire next in 15 minutes.

>need to set a timer to fire on every 15 minute interval. (ie: 1:00 , 1:15, 1:30 etc.)
>It seems the paint event fires every 1 second and the following code is in the
>paint event of the form
>
>

>IF EMPTY(this.timercontrol.interval) and INT(MINUTE(datetime())/15 )=MINUTE(datetime)/15
>      this.timercontrol.interval = 15*60*1000
>ENDIF
>

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>Question I have is there any issues to be concerned about with setting the timer from the Paint event of the form?