Thanks for replying, Terry, and sorry I hadn't replied -- my mistake, I
guess, for posting late on a Friday afternoon!

As to the combo/timer problem, I've tested it by creating a simple form
containing nothing in it except the timer, the combo, and a command
button. The combo itself has no code in any methods and the timer only
has a THISFORM.RELEASE associated with the Timer event. The problem I
described still occurs. So, I'm 99% sure the problem doesn't reside in
any code I have added to the controls in our real forms.

By housekeeping, do you mean that I might need to programmatically release
the combo and the timeras a workaround? I haven't tried that. I'll give
it a shot.

Thanks!

Jose'

>Could a lostfocus or interactive change event in your combo be conflicting with your form release. Sometimes, a procedure in a PRG, may need to be called to do the housekeepping on the combo and close (shutdown) the VFP environment.
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>>Hello everyone,
>>
>>We are having a problem in one of our projects being developed
>>using VFP 6 SP3. The form(s) in question have among other
>>controls a timer and a dropdown combo box on it. What we want
>>to happen is when a time period expires, the timer control
>>issues a THISFORM.RELEASE to close the form. However, we
>>have found that when
>>
>>1) the combobox has the focus , and
>>2) the list associated with the combo is dropped down, and
>>3) the mouse has been moved so that an item other than the first
>> is now highlighted in the list
>>
>>we don't get the results we expect. When any other type of
>>control has the focus or when the combo has the focus but is
>>not dropped down, the form closes as expected. Under the above
>>three conditions, a couple of things are happening. Most of
>>the time, focus simply returns to the form rather than it
>>closing. Other times we get the dreaded C0000005 error.
>>
>>This occurs in any form that has a combo and a timer and meets
>>the above three conditions.
>>
>>Has anyone else ever run into this problem? And if so, how did
>>you work around or fix it?
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Jose'