Hi Sergey,
I didn't disable timer while processing the event. I thought about it but also thought that VFP does it automatically, but, now that you have mentioned it, I will have to do it.
Thank you for your help.
>Hi Dmitry,
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>What other code is in the Timer event? Do you disable timer while processing Timer event? Any other details? You can use SYS(1011) to see if there's memory leak.
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>>Is there a problem with a Timer in VFP 8?
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>>I ran into the following problem (maybe it is me, maybe vfp 8).
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>>I have a timer on the form which fires every minute. For testing, I set a =messagebox() in the Timer Event method. It so happened that a case I was testing required many, many clicks on the messagebox().
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>>What happened is the system got very very slow. And I could not even bring up the Task Manager to kill the process. I had to physically switch the PC off.
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>>The same problem repeated a couple of time.
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>>Any advice? TIA.
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