Naomi,

Gosh, I'm not going to be much help for you unfortunately, as I'm no longer at that job and don't know what happened.

But, yes, the answer was to have someone manually put the mouse on the title bar, which obviously is not a good solution.

I have some VFP9 application running 24 hours a day now and it has a timer, but I have Windows Scheduler boot the machine once a day and then restart that task. And this application is NOT a mission critical one.

Having written the VFP7 application and not coming up with a solution before I left I felt bad for myself and bad for FoxPro which let me down. Like others have suggested I would never again write a 24/7 mission critical app that relied on a timer. I would use Windows API Sleep or scheduler or something else.

Good luck!


>Can you please elaborate on your solution? Do you mean the user manually put the mouse on the title bur or you have implemented some programmatic way around the issue?
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>For now we suggested the client to run a batch that will kill the application and re-start it once a day. If there is some tweak that can help, I'd like to hear about that solution in details.
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>BTW, we're using VFP9 with the latest patch and hotfix.
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>Thanks a lot again.