>See if you can use MTmyVFP.
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>>Is there a way to cancel a method call to a COM object in VFP ?
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>>Here's my scenario.
>>The app is integrated with QuickBooks using the QBFC COM object.
>>At one of our sites, it sometimes take a very long time for the BeginSession() method to connect to the company file. Once in a while, it does not connect at all and the user must use the task manager to shut down our app and try again.
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>>I'd like to be able to put a timeout on this so that the user does not need to take such action. But the ways I know of in VFP for interrupting execution put the brakes on after the current line finishes executing. In our case, the current line does not finish executing.
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>>Is there an API call or some other strategy that can halt execution and enable control to be returned to VFP ?
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>>Thanks.

PMJI, Thanks! This may be just what I was looking for as well. I have some heavy COM processes in an app I need to be able to control the timeout on (aside from the COM timeout built in by the 3rd party). It would be nice if there was a way to do an asynch call to a COM...