>>>Does it work if you build it into a COM EXE?
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>>Yes. I guess that's my answer :)
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>>Using COM EXE kills my ability to multithread.
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>>Bummer. I really need to speed up this process.
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>When you instanciate the COM EXE, is it showing any UI? Even popping up something like a splash screen counts as UI. SWAG, maybe there's a .DontShowUI setting for the control (?)
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>Another option might be to spawn multiple instances of a COM EXE. Since they're separate processes I believe the OS has more options for scheduling them than with a VFP MTDLL. For example, if you have a 4 core CPU maybe you could spawn 4 instances.

Nothing visible but this ActiveX definitely doesn't work unless it's hosted on a container or form.

I was trying to use VFPC232 multithreading which (that I can tell) only supported vfp MTDLL's.

I've since moved on to using ParallelFox with this activex compiled into an .exe and now I have what I was after.

Thanks for the help.