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>>>I got to the practice of storing _tally into a variable or property immediately after the statement which did what I need to _tally for. Few lines later it may be wrong, for whichever reason - and timers aren't the only thing. It may be a slightly complicated SKIPFOR expression, or a grid refresh or who knows what code. Also, I've noticed that in VFP9 _tally behaves differently in some situations than it behaved in all previous versions. Can't remember what it was - it's been a dozen years - but there WAS something which made me rely on it less and less.
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>>But a timer could fire even between the statement that sets _TALLY and the one that stores it. That was an issue in the application I was working on where the timer fired often.
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>True, and while I could never pinpoint the cause to exactly that, I did resolve the issues by
>- not relying on _tally anymore (just checked - there are lots of mentions of _tally in code before 2008 but none after, most of it in two apps where there were no timers at all)
>- leaving the environment which relied heavily on timers (I'd rather do those things by bound events - i.e. refresh the toolbars etc, but I was not the architect there)
In the application where I learned this the hard way, timers were necessary. There were plenty of bound events, too, and they, too, can mess with _TALLY.
Tamar
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