Timers in a service?

You can use timers in services. The timer should however be initialized in Service_Create.
You should access it with:

how do i call subroutines located in Main from the service? Vice versa?

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Using CallSubDelayed to interact between activities and services

ok i got that working but i ran into another issue. if the activity is in the background, like if another program opened on top of it then the serial comms stop. That is bad. The timer clock is running but the comms stop.

Also if a pop-up box occurs, such as an entry input box, the timer stops. everything stops. thats also bad... VB6 did this too, but only in the IDE. it didnt do it in the compiled app.

any ideas?

See my answer in the other thread you started.