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Programmatically keep a session from idling
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From
24/01/2008 15:49:24
Al Doman (Online)
M3 Enterprises Inc.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
 
 
To
24/01/2008 15:12:06
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01284395
Message ID:
01285266
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>>Putting a program client side might would work, except the client is a dumb terminal used just for connecting to Terminal Services, this limits us in what we can do client side.
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>The dumb terminal doesn't need much - a few megs to run a simple VFP task (or even less runtime if you can do that in C++). It would only need a timer and a way to call a system API call.

If it truly is a dumb terminal, it's likely running an OS that can't run VFP e.g. WinCE or even embedded Linux. OTOH the thin client vendor may offer some sort of "keep-alive" function as part of their offering.
Regards. Al

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