Thanks Nadya, never thought of this before.

Regards
Doug Johnston


>Doug,
>
>Are you sure you have this.enabled = .f. at the top of the timer method, then this.enabled = .t. at the end?
>
>>Hi Garrett,
>>
>>The timer event calls a Form Method (to re populate the grids base table. I found by refreshing the grid during the Form Method, everything was OK, however refreshing the grid during the timer event did not work.
>>
>>Regards
>>Doug Johnston
>>
>>>>The timer control refreshes the data in the grid every
>>>>3 minutes. When the timer fires, the grid goes blank
>>>>(grid lines etc are still there, this is not a loss of
>>>>control source problem), but the only way I can get the
>>>>grid to actually display anything is via a key press. This
>>>>can be any key (Delete, Insert etc).
>>>
>>>I haven't seen this problem exactly, but is this a buffered table, and is someone else entering data into the same table?
>>>
>>>Also, have you tried a DOEVENTS or INKEY(.01) instead of the keypress?