Should I do a Timer.Enabled = .F. at the start of the code and a Timer.Enabled = .T. on the way out of my code to start another interval??

Thanks

>Make sure you disable the timer (Timer.Enabled = .F.) when you fire your code.
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>>In the Timer event is
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>>ThisForm.PollCells()
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>>The PollCells method of the form reads data from a PLC using a DDE interface.
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>>I tried the wait wind and it functions as expected so the problem must be in the PollCells method...
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>>this is the code in the pollcells method
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>>ThisForm.Label25.Caption = "Polling Cell 1A"
>>lcRequest = DDERequest(ThisForm.cChannelOne, 'X0')
>>ThisForm.Label25.Caption = "After DDERequest"
>>IF !EMPTY(lcRequest) AND DDELastError( ) = 0      && Successful
>>	IF lcRequest = "1"
>>		ThisForm.shp1A.FillColor = RGB(0,255,0)
>>	ELSE
>>		ThisForm.shp1A.FillColor = RGB(255,0,0)
>>	ENDIF
>>ENDIF
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>>... for each cell about 15 with only the addresses different
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>>John
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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?