>>I have a routine which prints a report to a pdf file (using PDFfactory). After the REPORT FORM clause has been initiated my code continues to run - BUT the subsequent lines of code are dependent upon the PDF having been generated. Sometimes the pdf generation takes several seconds and the subsequent code breaks. I have tried putting in a LOOP statement to check for the PDF file being generated, but this does not seem to work consistently - sometimes just getting stuck in the loop because (I assume) the loop is taking all the processing time and the pdf cannot be completed.
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>>I hope this makes sense - and if it does, has anyone any suggestions how to get around the problem?
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>>Thanks
>>Barry Sutton.
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>May be you can try to monitor file creation using Solution Samples -> New in Visual FoxPro 9 -> Binding to Windows Message Events -> File/Folder Shell Events

Naomi, thanks I will give it a go and let you know. Barry