>>>>I just tried your code and the timer still dosen't fire. Thanks for the idea.
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>>>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
>>>

>>>
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>>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?
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>It may have been related to Timers not firing with the menu system dropped down. You do have the last service pack for VFP 5 installed, don't you? VS97/SP3 http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates/sp/vs97/default.aspx


I thought I did, I will verify that.