From: paul_orman@comcast.net   
      
   I have a piece of VB code (.NET 1.1 - VB 2003) that loads data from a   
   database through a timer.  So the timer is setup and from it I call the   
   procedure that loads the latest records from the database.  This works fine.   
      
   However, I attempt to notify the user when data accesses occur.  The way I   
   attempt to accomplish this is by changing the background color of a label on   
   the form the user is looking at.  I use red for when the database is opened,   
   yellow for data transfers and green for a successful completion of the   
   operation - and then I set the color back to its original gray background   
   after the operation.   
      
   If this is put inline in my code - for most (not all) accesses the notify   
   happens so fast you never see the color changes - so I want the change to   
   last for a second or so.  So I set up another timer that essentially does:   
      
   if color = gray then set color red   
   if color = red then set color yellow   
   if color = yellow then set color green   
   if color = green then set color gray   
      
   This timer works perfectly in any piece of standalone code.  However when I   
   set it from the routine that access the database, somehow the calls are   
   stacked and I do not see them occur until the end of the database access.   
      
   I initially suspected that the database I/O calls were occurring prior to   
   the timer event and that the I/O was blocking the event.  However if I place   
   any type of debug statement in the code, the thing works.  So now I am   
   wondering if it is caused by calling one timer event from a routine that was   
   launched from another timer event.   
      
   Is there anyway to force the order of event handling (on time - and without   
   putting message boxes in the code) so that it would work as you would   
   suspect based on code flow?   
      
   Thanks for any and all help/suggestions,   
   Paul Orman   
   paul_orman@comcast.net   
      
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