>Okay, I have to make something that involves time checking from second to second. I tried to use the timer object and it's killing me. VFp got stuck. Any ideeas? Maybe an example of creating an API timer?
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>Thanks,
>Ionut
You can check the time with time(), seconds() or datetime().
If you want to execute code every so often, a timer works OK, normally.
The special timer from
www.bbcontrols.com is supposed to solve some of the limitations of the VFP timer. Specifically, it will execute even if VFP is busy.
HTH,
Hilmar.
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