>>If I "pull" down a Control Menu when my VFP App is running a Timer loop, it "stops". Only when the Control Menu is closed does the App start up again.
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>>With ActiveX, you're adding something else to the mix.
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>I don't understand... I do various things with timers and they fire even when a menu popup is active. Whether it is concerned ActiveX or not; it does not seem to matter.
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>There must be some kind of 'setting' responsable for this behaviour.

Thanks for the info. The Forms in question use DirectX; I think that must be it because I couldn't reproduce it otherwise. I assumed too much.