>yes hilmar.
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>Did you try to disable the Timer, at the beginning of its Timer() event?
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>i'd like to continue notify my user of a new pdf file in the server then stop when they read the file. i actually have a way of knowing when they have read the file.
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>i put a messagebox in timer but my problem is, if i do this, i will clog my user of messageboxes. i want to be able to find a way to close the messagebox before showing another messagebox.
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>can i do this?

You can add a TIMEOUT to the messagebox, but it sounds like what you want is not a messagebox at all, but a WAIT WINDOW NOWAIT. Then you can use WAIT CLEAR to clear any messages you want to get rid of, or just overwrite them with a new WAIT WINDOW.