Well, you can use WM_TIMER, but I wonder if you'd be better off figuring out how to poll the system clock. Obviously you still need to use a timer, but it would be more reliable than trusting the timer alone. Create an MFC project, dialog based, hit CTRL_W to bring up the class wizard, add an OnTimer message handler. In your initial code add something like: SetTimer(42, 60000, NULL); Then in your OnTimer, check the timer id to see if it's 42, if it is, check the time and then either reset the timer for another minute, or show your message box. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
