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From
27/07/2003 16:17:30
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00813934
Message ID:
00813936
Views:
7
>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?
>
>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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