>Unfortunately this is not alway's a suitable alternative. You're bound to the implementation of the activeX control. building controls within VFP provides more flexibility and is more lightweight.
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Timers are anything but lightweight.... Also, you can subclass ActiveX Controls in VFP to extend their functionality. I had a series of articles in FoxTalk last year on this very subject...

>John, Again, why do you have the urge to be rude and try to offense people ? Your behaviour doesn't fit your MVP status. If you don't want to discuss things don't reply ! By the reaction of other people, like jimB I can only conclude this idea is worth a discussion.
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OK... Timers are, IMHO, a bad idea. They add overhead, and once again, are anything but lightweight.

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How can you judge ? Are you VFP developer team member ? Your remark has no value to me. Only if someone of the VFP-team says it's impossible, I would respectfully withdraw my wish.
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It is not a matter of it being impossible, it is a matter of being practical. I can almost guarantee you the VFP team has not been swamped with a request like this. I could think of , oh say 10 items that would be more important than this. And of the 10 I think are important, I will consider myself lucky if 1 or 2 make it.

As always, you are free to ask for anything you want. And, allow me to open the first door for you. Send your wish to foxwish@microsoft.com. This is no BS, that is a real email address....






>>In purely economic terms, the cost would not be justified. And once again, there are ActiveX Controls that can be used instead.
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>Again, ActiveX controls do not fill the need in all cases and slows an app down even more than one or two extra events.
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>>Also, I think Lisa Slater came up with best solution that does not use timers. Rather, the various mouseover events across different controls are used.
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>This method is not sufficient. There are leaks in it ! See the reply of Erik to Roi.
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>>So you see, the work has been done for you already....<s>
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>No i'm just waiting for VFP 7 or above.
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>Walter,