>Thanks for your help but that didn't seem to work. I am trying to get one VFP application to fire an event in another. I've done it via VBA by issuing a SendKeys command, which worked fine.
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I doubted that it would, but not knowing exactly what you were after limited my response.


>I could use an event timer to check for a file on disk, but timers have peculiar effects on my combo controls. Maybe VFP6 will fix that.
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>Any other ideas?
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Yeah, you could set up the applications to use DDE to pass a signal to the other app to fire the necessary event.

hth,