Worked fine for me.
I added in a step so I could see it firing though.
oTimer = CREATEOBJECT('FTPTimer')
set step on
DEFINE CLASS FTPTimer AS Timer
Interval = 5000
PROCEDURE Timer Event
WAIT 'TEST' WINDOW TIMEOUT .5
ENDPROC
ENDDEFINE
Carole Shaw
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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