Hi John,

Yep, sure would. Or some similar facility but keeping within the OOP structure. Guess the VFP team felt that when the Timer control was introduced things like the Timeout clause were no longer needed/applicable.


>Hi Bill ---
>
>Sure would be nice to have a TIMEOUT clause on READ EVENTS like we did with READ in the old days, eh?
>
>
>>>I am using VFP 5.0a and a mix of Win'95, Win '98, and NT Workstation 4.0 users on a NT 4.0 network.
>>>In my VFP applications I would like to have the application quit after some period of inactivity.
>>>In FP 2.6 DOS, I used the 'read timeout' when at appropriate points in the program. Is there an easy way to accomplish this in VFP?
>>>Thanks,
>>>Denis
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>>Probably need to instantiate a timer, then monitor and reset it in Keypress and/or InteractiveChange events. Someone else may have another solution and will chime in.
>>
>>Bill