>How can I best set up a process that needs to run every hour?
>
>For instance, I need to run a program that goes out and checks
>for the existance of new files on a directory. If new files
>are found then a program will need to be run to import this
>data.
>
>Thus far, I have thought of something like the following:
>
> DO WHILE .T.
> lnx = ADIR(lax,'\searchdir\*.*')
> IF lnx > 0
> DO importprogram
> ENDIF
> ENDDO
>
>I suspect that the CPU useage will always be at 100% and
>a PC will need to be dedicated to only this task.
>
>Is there a better way to do this that can check every
>hour or so. Perhaps a class with a timer event.
>
>I suspect that someone has had to create something like
>this before... right?

Actually, yes, I did exactly what you're saying, but unfortunately for you, I did it exactly the way you said. There was a machine dedicated to running only that process. It ran in a continual loop checking a directory for uploaded files, and processing any it found. Did this in VFP 3.0 about 3 years ago.