Sounds to me like PollCells is changing the value of the interval. Check the value of the timers interval after PollCells is executed. If it has changed, just place a break in the debugger when the value of the timer's interval changes to determine what is changing it.


>In addition if I have
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>ThisForm.PollCells()
>WAIT WIND 'timer'
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>in the Timer method pollcells runs once then the wait window comes up and repeats itself constantly...
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>>>I have a timer on a form. I have set the interval to 30000 then when I enable the timer the code called from the timer method runs constantly. What am I missing?
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>>>Thanks
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>>Show us some code? Like what's in the Timer Event?
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>>Have you tried a timer that simply does a wait window and then set the interval to 30000 and see if it works?