>Larry,
>
>You right on. The form is just a splash screen to display the user requested information and to call the main viewing screen which takes about 3-4 seconds to generate the view from 5 tables.
>
>I will disable the timer, but I assumed releasing the non-modal form would prevent the timer from firing.
>

Ken,
I'm a little confused. How are you setting up the timer and how are calling the splash screen?

Ex.
Main Program

local lotimer
lotimer = createobject('tmrreleaser')
do form mysplash.scx
lotimer.Enabled = .T.

* do someother setup stuff here *
* by the timer this is over, the timer should have fired and released the splash screen and exectued the menu option
read events

Or do you have something else?