Timer in apps stop working

[Rod Hutton]

Hi everyone,

I'm writing to everyone because I'd like some input into the tendency of 
apps which have timers to stop working when there's some error in the 
Window-Eyes scripting environment.

Last night, my app which speaks the time every 15 minutes stop working 
because a pop-up on my system grabbed focus and stopped speech.  When I 
closed the pop-up, which is simply a request to update software, sppeech 
return, and so I thought everything was okay.  However, even though my clock 
app was still running, the time never announced again, and so I needed to 
restart it.  I have experienced this very often, first, when Window-Eyes 
speech gets locked up for a brief period of time, or, sometimes (not always, 
though) when a Window-Eyes app (not a app with a timer) causes an error to 
occur.  My opinion is that any errors or interruptions in the Window-Eyes 
speech or script-engine environment cause instability which have adverse 
effects on timer-based functions.

I would appreciate any feedback, if anyone has any, or, at least, I wanted 
to let people know about this. :)

Take care,

Rod :)