Bob,

What code do you have running at the time that's doing the authorizaton? Is it a single monolithic VFP command like REPLACE ALL, INDEX ON... or a SELECT? If so you are going to have to add a time wasting udf into the statement.

If you have a tight VFP loop running you should issue a DOEVENTS periodically in the loop.

>I have a simple form with a progress bar on it...and a timer that fires every second (interval=1000). The idea is to move the progress bar based on time.
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>Anyway when I run it by itself in test mode it works fine...when I include it in the program the timer does not seem to fire.
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>Any ideas?
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>Also, it has a animation control on the form (floating paper). Again, it works fine when you run it from the form designer but when I call it from inside the program the timer doesn't fire.
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>Here's the code in the program.
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>m.oMessage = .null.
>DO FORM ("please wait authorizing") NAME m.oMessage NOSHOW
>m.oMessage.show()