Hi Donald,

A COM object doesn't have access to the environment of the calling program. As result, the oObjTestCom was never in the scope of the COM object. Check Re: How does Calvin's code work? Thread #880866 Message #882294. It should give you some pointers.

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>I have two class definintions in the same program file, one of which is a timer. When the timer event fires, it calls a method in the first class, which fails. VFP complains it cannot find the called method of a public class, created from an exe ("Object oObjTestCom Not found").
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>When oObjTestCom is created from the prg file, everything works perfectly.
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>oObjTestCom = CREATEOBJECT("MyTestCom")   && Everything is ducky, Life is good.
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>But, when compiled into an exe named "MyComExe" and called like this:
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>oObjTestCom = CREATEOBJECT("MyComExe.MyTestCom")  && Problem. Get coffee refill.
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>The Object is created, Proc1, Proc2 and ProcCreateTimer all work.
>BUT, when the oMyTimer event fires, VFP errors, complaining it
>cannot find oObjTestCom.
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>The code below is abbreviated, and I am hoping that someone will be able to spot the problem straight away. Thanks for taking the time to look.
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>Thanks !
>Don Lowrey
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>File MyTestCom.prg has this (psuedo) code:
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>Define MyTestCom AS Custom OlePublic
>Procedure Init
>  This.CreateTimer
>EndProc
>Proc1..does stuff..EndProc
>Proc2..does other stuff..EndProc
>Procedure CreateTimer
>  * Tried variations with and without declaring PUBLIC oMyTimer
>  oMyTimer = CREATEOBJECT("MyTimer")
>EndProc
>EndDefine
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>Define Class MyTimer As Timer  && with and without OlePublic
>  Set Enabled .t. and Interval to an int val, such as 30000
>  Procedure Timer
>    oMyTestCom.Proc2  && This line fails from exe "Object oTestClass Not found"
>  EndProc
>EndDefine
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>Notes: When running from the executable:
>a. We know the class MyTimer gets created because the Timer event fires.
>b. However, from the VFP Object Browser, only the MyTestCom class is shown.
>c. In the DeBug window, oObjTestCom is shown as an object, but the Methods are not exposed. Also oMyTimer is not shown.
>d. We know the exe is running, because it is shown in the Task Manager, Processes Tab.
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