>>I want to make check to see if a process is "locked." I want to keep checking for a period of time (10 seconds or so I guess), then if it is still locked, then skip on out to the RETURN. If it is not locked (becomes available) then I want to do what's in the ELSE block. I'm think of DO WHILE, but I would need to add time-checking logic somewhere and I guess it wouldn't be an ELSE, but another IF?
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>>IF Proc_Lock.Locked = .T.
>>	* WAIT WINDOW 'Unable to update HL7 at this time.'
>>ELSE
>>	* Do lots of stuff with a table
>>ENDIF
>>
>>RETURN

>

>lnAttempts = 0
>#define MAX_ATTEMPTS 1000
>do while Proc_Lock.Locked or m.lnAttempts < MAX_ATTEMPTS
>   lnAttempts = m.lnAttempts + 1
>enddo
>
>if not Proc_Lock.Locked
>   * Do your stuff
>endif

Thanks!

Why use DEFINE here? Is it because it is a constant that isn't expected to change at runtime?