Hi Steve,

what are you doing with Photoshop?

The reason I ask is that ImageMagick is the program used for most web image conversion processes. You can run it through shell execution. There's also a Python library, which you could site behind CherryPy (a 12-line web service) to easy access from VFP.

Hank

>Hi:
>Is it possible to do a createobject to a) bring up instances of Photoshop and Bridge b) and to check if their processes have already instantiated? There seems to be more than one name for Photoshop-type objects?
>
>At the moment, I have Photoshop up. In Foxpro, with the following, I can see that oMyObject = "C" but that does not reflect whether the process itself exists. Maybe there is another way to tell? I can't find my book by Tamar that tells, I believe, how to know if an instance of Excel exists?
>
>

>set step on
>oMyObject = "Photoshop.Application"
>IF VARTYPE(oMyObject)<>"O"    ** or if I use "C"
>    oMyObject=CreateObject(oMyObject)
>ENDIF
>

>
>Thank you,
>Steve