diff -r 1e3fcb26cf9e src/hugin1/hugin/MainFrame.cpp
--- a/src/hugin1/hugin/MainFrame.cpp	Mon Nov 29 20:26:19 2010 +0100
+++ b/src/hugin1/hugin/MainFrame.cpp	Tue Nov 30 09:40:19 2010 +0100
@@ -209,10 +209,14 @@
     m_progress = 0;
     svmModel=NULL;
 
+    wxTimer *timer; 
     wxBitmap bitmap;
     wxSplashScreen* splash = 0;
     wxYield();
 
+    timer = new wxTimer(this, 1);
+    fprintf (stderr, "blabla\n");
+
     if (bitmap.LoadFile(huginApp::Get()->GetXRCPath() + wxT("data/splash.png"), wxBITMAP_TYPE_PNG))
     {
         // embed package version into string.
@@ -424,6 +428,9 @@
 #endif
 #endif
 #endif
+    Connect(wxEVT_TIMER, wxCommandEventHandler(MainFrame::OnTimer));
+    timer->Start (10000); // start the autosave timer. 
+
     // generate list of most recently uses files and add it to menu
     wxConfigBase * config=wxConfigBase::Get();
     m_mruFiles.Load(*config);
@@ -1681,6 +1688,23 @@
     }
 }
 
+void MainFrame::OnTimer(wxCommandEvent &e)
+{
+    wxString m_currentPTOfn;
+
+    fprintf (stderr, "autosaving...");
+    m_currentPTOfn = wxString("hugin_autosave.pto", wxConvLocal);
+
+      // copy is not enough, need to adjust image path names...
+    ofstream script(m_currentPTOfn.mb_str(HUGIN_CONV_FILENAME));
+    PT::UIntSet all;
+    if (pano.getNrOfImages() > 0) {
+        fill_set(all, 0, pano.getNrOfImages()-1);
+    }
+    pano.printPanoramaScript(script, pano.getOptimizeVector(), pano.getOptions(), all, false, "");
+    script.close();
+    fprintf (stderr, "done\n");
+}
 
 void MainFrame::OnSize(wxSizeEvent &e)
 {
diff -r 1e3fcb26cf9e src/hugin1/hugin/MainFrame.h
--- a/src/hugin1/hugin/MainFrame.h	Mon Nov 29 20:26:19 2010 +0100
+++ b/src/hugin1/hugin/MainFrame.h	Tue Nov 30 09:40:19 2010 +0100
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@
     /** event handler for full screen */
     void OnFullScreen(wxCommandEvent &e);
     void UpdatePanels(wxCommandEvent & e);
+    void OnTimer(wxCommandEvent &e);
     void OnSize(wxSizeEvent &e);
     void enableTools(bool option);