>>David,
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>>Thinking of it, I think this one will indeed take care of complication 2 that I mentioned. I have used this.enabled=.f. in the past, but apparently it has not become part of my 'automatic coding style'. I'll try to stick to it in the future. Perhaps they should have made it a native property of the timer class.
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>The Enabled is native property of the VFP Timer base class.


I have been in the habit of setting the interval to 0 and when done reset to what it was. Does setting enable to .f. and back to .t. do the same thing?