This is a little confusing. There shouldn't be a "thisform" in a COM DLL. What is it exactly that you are trying to accomplish? If you are trying to hook to the events of the WinSock DLL you might want to look at VFPCOM.DLL. Otherwise, you need to call your DLL from a client that will stay alive during the asynchronous processing that I think you are describing. The client's reference to the object will keep it in scope, which will in turn keep it's members in scope. Then poll the DLL, which will pass through the request to the WinSock object.

I'm not sure if I helped answer the question here because I'm not sure I understand the objective. If this doesn't address the problem please clarify for me and maybe I can help.

>Hi Erik:
>
> Tried something like that.
> I put a timer in the class hoping that it would keep VFP6r running while
> the winsock control talked to the SMTP server. In the timer event I checkd for CR/LF in the data received, signaling the end of that response.
>
>MAILER.START_PROCESS
> THIS.TIMER.INTERVAL = 100
> THIS.CHECK_FLAG = .T.
>
>TIMER.INTERVAL
> IF THISFORM.CHECK_FLAG
> IF (CHR(13) + CHR(10)) $ THISFORM.RECEIVED_DATA
> THISFORM.CHECK_FLAG = .F.
> THISFORM.PROCESS_DATA()
> ENDIF
> ENDIF
>
>MAILER.PROCESS_DATA
> PROCESS.....
> ...........
> THIS.CHECK_FLAG = .T.
>
> As you can see the timer is active at all times but it still jumpes out
> exactly at the same place.
>
>This project is 99% complete, obviously this is the only missing part.
>Any more ideas?
>
>TIA
>
>>>Hi:
>>>
>>> I made a class based on form that has a MSWinsock control in it.
>>> Using the winsock control I connect to a SMTP server to send emails.
>>> It worked flawlessly until I tried to use it in a COM dll.
>>>
>>>
>>>I tried to use READ EVENTS but READ EVENTS does not seem to work
>>>inside the COM dll.
>>>
>>
>>READ EVENTS is the command that tells VFP to go into a wait state ready for USER input. It relays processing control to the UI. VFP COM dll cannot have a UI. The Vfp6r.dll (the VFP runtime for single threaded COM servers) probably responds to a READ EVENTS by jumping out of the method, because a REASD EVENTS doesn't belong in a COM dll.
>>
>>If you want your COM server to wait and poll Winsock, just put in in a loop that checks the ready status of the WinSock control.