>that's about as far as I went , and I was wondering if there was a way to further reduce the object count etc.
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>I wanted something to be as little resource-consuming as possible , because it would run in background , like a reminder/daemon/whatever .
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>Thanks anyway

This doesn't actually reduce the amount of resources needed by VFP. The VFP run times still load and take about 4+ MB of RAM. If you want something really small in resources, you nned to develop it in something like C/C++.