-wxList wxTimerList(wxKEY_INTEGER);
-UINT WINAPI _EXPORT wxTimerProc(HWND hwnd, WORD, int idTimer, DWORD);
+// define a hash containing all the timers: it is indexed by timer id and
+// contains the corresponding timer
+WX_DECLARE_HASH_MAP(unsigned long, wxTimer *, wxIntegerHash, wxIntegerEqual,
+ wxTimerMap);
+
+// instead of using a global here, wrap it in a static function as otherwise it
+// could have been used before being initialized if a timer object were created
+// globally
+static wxTimerMap& TimerMap()
+{
+ static wxTimerMap s_timerMap;
+
+ return s_timerMap;
+}