Ali,

May I ask, is the SendUpdates flag set on the remote view?


>Been a while since I've had an issue, sorry for my absence.
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>anyway, I've got A program which runs through a load of code on a timer if it finds a file it starts a dcom object and calls a function, this function sets a field in a remote view to .F. does a tableupdate() and returns
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>my understanding is that a call to a dcom object is like a standard function call, that it must complete for control to return.
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>also that by doing a tableupdate() my base table will have been updated, however in the main program after the function as returned I do a requery() on it's remote view and the value is still .T.
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>if I go into debug and step through slowly it's is .F. by the time I get to it.
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>how can I force things to fully update?
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>I've tried a use and flush in the dcom object before returning the function but still no luck.
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>hope I'm making sense, this has been sending me nuts today.
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>!! update !! In the main program I did a use of the remote view after getting back from the function and reopened it, then did a requery() (not sure if that was neccessary) and it's working as I expect, but why?
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>Ken.