>I also looked at this issue in great detail in the past and came to the conclusion that it's by design from Microsoft. First I tried VFP timers and then C++ timers (Bela Bodecs has some free C++ timers you can use with VFP). probably better to use the EXE server as you said...

I saw that earlieer thread of Yours.

Still funny, not many seem to realize that.
No one seems to use timers in (VFP) COM-objects.
So either I am completely wrong the way I am doing things or maybe
there is a better way.

However I have no better Idea how to create real events
like "Go out and do Your job. When You're done, come back an tell me.
In between I will do something else!"