I wrote one app that ran all the time, polling for scheduled processes to run or newly arrived batch files and firing up the appropriate process. Not sure how it would have worked without timers....

>Hi Gregory,>
>I'm not sure about timer events - but one should not use it anyway. <g>
>A code sequence SELECT REPLACE in subsequent lines should not create IDLE. At least thats the sence of autoyield=.F.
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>I never had problems here, and I do a lot coding inside grids.
>For what I remember there where problems with IN and the current workarea at EOF too. I'm not shure if this is solved in some version.
>
>Agnes
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>>> _VFP.AutoYield = .F. and nothing will trouble exeqution sequnece. ::)
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>>>Agnes
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>>Not really, Agnes
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>>Timers, DoEvents, Foxpro deciding it has an idle state (which processes pending windows events like mouse clicks) may change the current work area
>>You may have a programming error
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>>Better safe than sorry