>>How do I stop the timer firing while in a timer event?
>>Lets say I have a timer, tim1, on a form.
>>If the first line of the tim1.timer() event is
>>this.enabled= .F.
>>shouldn't that stop the timer firing again.
>>Yet if I debug and step through the code, the timer keeps firing.
>>If I put
>>this.interval= 0
>>in the first line the debugger stops and looses its place.
>>I'm sure I used to be able to do this somehow??
>>
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>>Also, if my timer() code takes 2 seconds to run and the interval is set to 500 milliseconds, the timer seems to re-fire whilst in the middle of the code execution. Should that be?
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>It should. It is recommended therefore to reset the timer.interval to 0 at the beginning of your timer() code then re-start it after.

Thanks Jess, I think i have a base class that does that. I would have thought that setting .enabled to .F. would have the same effect but it doesn't seem to in my code.