I've made the changes for the missing locals (yup it's amazing what you can find if you really look "hard"), and changed the function name. I'll be putting the new version up on our UG web site later today, so if you want to download the new version rather than playing with the old one, you'll have that option. Now that we've worked out the apparent problems, I suppose I could submit it here on the UT - I'm sure not everyone is using VFP 7.0 yet, and they may want / need a timed messagebox.

Rick

>Hi Rick,
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>Thanks a lot for your response. I didn't look through the code closely, but I believe you didn't declare lnHand in the main procedure as local, only in timer event. I also believe there was another variable like l_cErrorMessages, which was not declared.
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>Anyway, I asked my colleague to run this function standalone on Windows 98, and it worked just fine. So, I assume, it was some weird combination of properties (user environment), which caused this error message on user's machines, which happen to be Windows 98, what's why my original suspect was, what it's OS related. I now think, we need to dig deeper in order to find the cause of it. We both could not replicate this problem on our development machines (Windows 95 (!)) and on Windows NT box.
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