Re: Fun with VFP timers

2008-10-27 Thread Richard Kaye
And for those playing along, the answer is SET REFRESH. Once I knocked it down, it appears to work like a charm. Thanks for the input. Ted Roche wrote: > In this case, I'd be more inclined to look back towards your original > design, passing data throug a VFP database. Check your REFRESH > setti

Re: Fun with VFP timers

2008-10-24 Thread Alan Bourke
Could be a candidate for a little socket listener on one PC and a sender on the other ... -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of

Re: Fun with VFP timers

2008-10-23 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Richard Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting idea. You've given me some food for thought. Unfortunately, I think I answered the wrong question. I thought the situation was that the controlling application and the slideshow were on the same machine. COM Aut

Re: Fun with VFP timers

2008-10-23 Thread Richard Kaye
Interesting idea. You've given me some food for thought. Here's a bit more detail for anyone following along on how I've got it sort of working at the moment. Instance 1/Machine 1/Data Entry Form User is entering data into 2 specific columns in a grid. After they enter the data in the 2nd colum

Re: Fun with VFP timers

2008-10-23 Thread Michael Madigan
I'm not really following very well what you're doing, but, it may be that the program is caching the changes and not reporting them to the second program. Turning off write caching would solve that, I guess. --- On Wed, 10/22/08, Richard Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Richard Kaye <

RE: Fun with VFP timers

2008-10-23 Thread Allen
You don't say how you are controlling one program from another. Ted mentioned OLE and of course you can do that cross pc's as well. FoxPro used to have DDE as well which way back was favoured by M$ as a way of talking across a network. Pity they crushed that as it worked and was easy to do. I think

Re: Fun with VFP timers

2008-10-22 Thread Ted Roche
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Richard Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the scenario. I have a VFP based slideshow integrated into my > app. I want to be able to control it from another instance of my main > application running a different form on a different system. Sounds like a classi