>>I just tried your code and the timer still dosen't fire. Thanks for the idea.
>
>Nothing was set to happen in my example. It was to to show how to put a timer on a toolbar. The following will trigger a messagebox.
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>

>Public oTool
>oTool=Createobject("myToolbar")
>oTool.AddObject("timer1","timer1")
>oTool.Show()
>Define Class mytoolbar As Toolbar
>	Caption = "Toolbar1"
>	Name = "mytoolbar"
>Enddefine
>Define Class timer1 As Timer
>	Top = 5
>	Left = 5
>	Height = 23
>	Width = 23
>	Name = "Timer1"
>	Interval = 10000
>	Procedure Timer
>	    Messagebox("The timer is on!!")
>        Endproc
>Enddefine
>

>

I am sorry I should have explained that I changed the code a little to be similar to the above example but still nothing is displayed. I am using VFP5, it seems to work fine in 7. Is this a know issue with 5?