Problem with Timer?

I am trying to show animation, while a connection is being made to Oracle using RDO object. When the connection is done, I want to stop animation.But what I observe is that animation doesn't run while the RDO is attempting to connect.Animation doesn't get CPU cycle..I tried to use TIMER but still it doesn't work....Any ideas???
Thanks in advance

Neel

and if you did...did you set enabled = True?

Yes!!
The timer event occurs after the connection is done.Then I can see the Animation but not when the connection is being made.
thanx

The only thing you could try is to start the animation before you attempt the connection. I still don't think this is going to work because you're working with a single threaded application. Nothing else in that process is going to execute until the connection is made.. the application is pretty much frozen until it's done..

perhaps it's changing the animation but it isn't refreshing it...did you try sticking a 'doevents' in the timer ?