Wowie Zowie - Thank you!

>VFP timers work in vfp .EXE COMs, not in vfp mtdll COMs. However, we just found a timer that DOES work in vfp mtdll COM servers:
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>1) go get this .ZIP file from here:
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>http://download.com.com/3000-2401-889219.html?tag=lst-0-1
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>2) unzip the .EXE and regsvr32 the associated .DLL
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>regsvr32.exe ccrpTmr.dll
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>3) Build the following code as a MTDLL:
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>4) Instantiate the class:
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>oCom = CREATEOBJECT( "TimerTest.TimerTest" )
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>That's it!  Your timer events will now function correctly in a VFP MTDLL.
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>One final thing to remember.  Before you release the object
>(in the case of above, oCom) you must set the enabled property
>of the timer control to .F. like this:
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>oCom.oTimerControl.Enabled = .F.
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>Otherwise VFP will crash with a C00005 error.
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>>Claude - Thanks so much for posting that code. A few years back I had considered a server "write-back-to-client-event" using timer (and COMRETURNERROR) - but my understanding [then] was that a timer object could not be contained in an OLEPUBLIC COM.
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>>Is there a rule (or something) regarding timer being contained in a COM?
>>Thanks (again)