>>The regular sin() and Cos() functions expect angle measured in radians, in positive direction (clockwise is negative), starting off x-axis. So I had to recalculate the angle - 15 seconds is a right angle (we're starting the stopwatch off y-axis, not x), and 30 seconds is a 180 degree angle, which we need to scale with Pi. So, 15-nSecs is our angle in seconds; divided by 30 it gives us the same angle divided by 180; multiplying this with Pi gives us actual angle in Cartesian coordinates, expressed in radians.
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>>The additional complication is that our on-screen coordinates have a negative direction of the y-axis (zero on top, positive numbers below)... made this a little more fun to do :).
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>Ok, I'm with you on that, but I get an error on this line
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>.HEIGHT=-SIN(lnAngle)* Radius
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>because it evaluates to a negative number. lnAngle is 1.256637 and Radius = 100. Am I missing something else?

Shouldn't happen - I have a form where this works. Just in case, I may have missed something when I pasted the code. Here's a re-paste of the code which works.

** DrawHand custom method of the form
Lparameters nSecs

lnAngle=(15-nSecs)/30*Pi()
x0=Thisform.Width/2
y0=Thisform.Height/2
R=y0*.8

x1=x0+Cos(lnAngle)*R
y1=y0-Sin(lnAngle)*R
With Thisform.line1
	Do Case
		Case x0<=x1 And y0>=y1
			.Left=x0
			.Width=Cos(lnAngle)*R
			.Top=y1
			.Height=Sin(lnAngle)*R
			.LineSlant="/"
		Case x0<=x1 And y0<y1
			.Left=x0
			.Width=Cos(lnAngle)*R
			.Top=y0
			.Height=-Sin(lnAngle)*R
			.LineSlant="\"
		Case x0>x1 And y0>=y1
			.Left=x1
			.Width=-Cos(lnAngle)*R
			.Top=y1
			.Height=Sin(lnAngle)*R
			.LineSlant="\"
		Case x0>x1 And y0<y1
			.Left=x1
			.Width=-Cos(lnAngle)*R
			.Top=y0
			.Height=-Sin(lnAngle)*R
			.LineSlant="/"
	Endcase

Endwith

You can set your own values for x0, y0 and R, of course.
I can't catch what was wrong with the first version of code, could be a minus I didn't notice somewhere.