>I have a client that would like a "Station to Station Messaging"
>system. Their are about 10 stations on the Local Area Network.
>He would like an application that would allow one station to
>send a message to another station. A popup window would open
>when a station received a message showing who the message was
>from and the level of urgency. He would like these messages
>to be logged into a database.
>
>Do you know where we can get an application like this?That's a feature that your OOP VFP Framework (home-grown or commercial) should be able to handle with ease. If you have a user manager object (
oUser
) that takes care of user login/logout, then your app (framework) knows when users are logged in. You could add a timer in the framework, inherited by your Application Object (
oApp
) that checks a database periodically for new messages directed to
cUserId = CurrentUserId
or to
AllUsers
, within a certain timeframe, or after the last DateTimeStamp check, or whatever you want. If it returns true, then you can popup a modal form shpowing the message and optionally allowing for a reply.
To create messages, provide a button and/or menu option to open a modal form and create a new message. These get written to a table that is queried by the timer mentioned above.
HTH