>I should write a VFP program that work on server. Continuously, This program will look a vfp table, if new records added, make some time consuming tasks.
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>User should start and stop this program for maintenance purpose.
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>Question is: How can I escape from an endless loop, when user clicks the stop buton on my vfp form?
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>Is this type program consume much CPU time due to endless do while loop?
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>Ali Ihsan

DON'T do this job in a loop. Add a timer set its interval and in timer event check for new records and do the job. When user click on button just Disable timer.