You can do it the same way you call the form - i.e. use a timer on the automatically called form.
To control the sequence of methods calls you need to add some custom properties to the form that will act as flags, the timer code can be:

do case
case thisform.startTheShow
  =thisform.method1()
  thisform.method1Executed = .t.
case thisform.method1Executed
  =thisform.method2()
  thisform.method2Executed = .t.
...
otherwise
endcase