Re: Forms4.5: When-Timer-Expired not firing
Date: 1997/11/17
Message-ID: <879785265.27767_at_dejanews.com>#1/1
In article <346e6c68.639456_at_news.frontiernet.net>,
skondolf_at_hatespam.frontiernet.net wrote:
>
> Hi all -
>
> Being a new developer with Forms 4.5 I naturally have a question
> that's stumping me. It's also stumping some of our more "experienced"
> developers.
>
> I've written a simple inquiry form and in it I run a non-repeating
> timer with an interval of 50 ms. On my pc (p166) the timer works
> fine, the when-timer-expired trigger fires and everything is
> wonderful. On a co-worker's pc (p166) it works fine also.
>
> On another co-worker's pc (P75) the timer doesn't appear to fire so
> the w-t-e trigger doesn't fire. The only difference is that his
> machine is a pentium 75 and ours are 166's.
>
> I've changed the interval of the timer all the way to 1000 ms but it
> doesn't appear to help.
>
> Has anyone else experienced problems with timers not running on
> various configurations? Any suggestions? Thanks.
Timers stop working after you get a GPF. When they stop, they also fail in the Forms Designer: the bubble-help pop-ups no longer work. Once this happens, you have to restart Windows to get everything working correctly.
In addition, lengthening the timer's time interval won't help. I always use a short interval--usually 1 millisecond in my timers. If something else is executing when the timer expires, it just gets into a stack, and the WTE trigger runs as soon as the other process is finished.
Regards,
Steve Cosner
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Received on Mon Nov 17 1997 - 00:00:00 CET