Look in the Files section for "A form independent, enhanced timer fll" by Bela Bodecs. He says this is a better timer with fewer problems than the VFP's timer.

Vlad

>Is it possible to run several processes in VFP 5.0 without allowing them to "freeze" each other. For example, I made a simple modeless form with timer, showing current system time. Started 10 copies of a form. All of them were running OK. But when I tried to issue SELECT * command in background, all timers stopped until SELECT wasn't finished.
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>Sergey Rewa