The last time I used timers extensively and required reliability was in the VFP5/6 days. The HackFox I have is 3, which lists a lot of bugs.

Does HackFox 7 list any bugs that still exist, or explicitly say that former bugs have been fixed?

>In my HackFox7 they write:
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>The timer is a control with no visible presence at runtime, but fires its Timer event at a regular, defined Interval. If you messed with this control in VFP 3 and got frustrated, give it another shot. We have to give Microsoft credit where credit is due, and they did a great job with Timer. In the original version of this book, which covered Visual FoxPro 3.0, Timer got credit for a lot of bugs—even the dreaded double-bug icon—but in later versions, it appears vastly improved.
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>>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.
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>>>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: