>>>Does anyone have, or know where to get, a blocking ftp control for VFP?
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>>>I need one like the Mabry control but blocking.
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>>Mabry can be used in blocking mode, ( I understand this to mean not asynchronous). I don't have the specifics, but if you look at the Mabry website in their tech support section you will find something.
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>Thanks for the reply, but the Mabry site says that the control cannot be used in blocking mode in VFP. The problem that I have is that the program can have no user intervention. It needs to autoload, auto-download files from multiple sites, and then shutdown.
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>I have solved (I think) the problem by turning a timer on and off and using a flag to tell me which action to perform next.


I still think it can be done in VFP (we had it implemented as blocking and then had to change to asynchronous). Although, I think it has to be VFP 5, if so you can issue

_VFP.Autoyield = .F.

DO yout FTP

_VFP.Autoyield = .T.