Hi!

Little note: once I did made the same and experiensed that Timer event of such time does not fire at all until I put that timer on the form, no matter which form - the form was just created by "Createobject('Form')" too. My app contained ActiveX controls, maybe that was a problem - I do not know exactly.

>Hi Mike
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>I solve this by creating a new class based on the timer class and adding it to my vcx. Then in my timer class I add whatever code I need. Then in your program somewhere use mytimerobj = createobject("mytimer"). Now your timer is 'free' of any form.
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>The variable you assign the timer object to must be scoped to the entire session where you need it. I instanciate the timer in my main program so that it is always in scope.
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>One word of warning: if VFP is busy processing something then the timer will not fire until processing stops.