>Naomi,
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>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.
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>But, yes, the answer was to have someone manually put the mouse on the title bar, which obviously is not a good solution.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Good luck!
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Thanks, Jeff. Will keep in mind when we're going for a new version release.