The HackFox books list a number of circumstances where the VFP timer either misbehaves, or doesn't fire at all. IIRC API approaches avoid most of those problems.
>Is it better?
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>>Below is an alternative to using the VFP timer -- it uses the Win API with all VFP code:
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