Christof --

Not sure that ANY of the solutions are easy.

In the short run, at least, it looks like I'll have to stick with the timer in a form ... something I understand already and can implement quickly.



>Hi James,
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>>I'd like to have a little pop-up notification (something like what I get when my GMail arrives) if possible, rather than relying on a form with a timer.
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>For the notifications you can use the Desktop Alerts from VFPX: http://www.codeplex.com/VFPX/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1644
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>However, you need something that triggers these alerts. There are several possible approaches. For instance, you could use DCOM on every client. This would basically allow one machine to show an alert on another machine. The drawback of DCOM is that it's hard to configure across firewalls and in secured environments. If the administrator is willing to do this, this would be the easiest solution.
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>Alternatively you could set up a socket server on every machine that is listening to incoming requests and displays them as alerts. You would probably need to run this as a separate EXE.
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>A little less direct would be the timer solution that you already have. To get rid of the timer, you could put the code that handles the alerts into a separate EXE. Then use one of the Wait functions instead. Not sure if this is much easier, though.