Sorry for taking so long to answer, but I just returned from vacation.
The return value was an ok response (even though I don't remember the exact value right now).
I have not tried to use events since this would mean to create another thread that waits for the event, which is not what I wanted, because then I could also use a separate thread with a sleep etc... which I have seen in some other posts on your forum.
In short my question is very simple: Have you had the chance to verify that this code snippet does not work ? And if you see the same result, do you have any idea why.
Let me point out that I am very well aware of alternate solutions to skin the famous cat, but the question right now refers to multimedia timer callbacks !!!