>>>>I want to use Visual foxpro 6.0 to run 2 processes at the same time.
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>>>>Process 1 :foxpro will send and receive data to both serial ports. This process should run continueously, update the GUI and also a table.
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>>>>Process 2 :The user interacts via several menus. While doing this, Process 1 should not pause.
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>>>>How do I set this up?
>>>>
>>>>Thank you in advance
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>>>You can create a multi-threaded COM server in VFP 6.0 SP3. There is/was a white paper on the MSDN foxpro site that talked about how to implement it.
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>>>
>>>Wayne
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>>Is a multi-threaded COM server going to be able to do what he need? If so, major kuhl!
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>No. The DLL will not allow UI.

I didn't think it would, and I wasn't even thinking about the UI part. I just didn't think it was going to allow you to "spawn off" a process to do the serial port monitoring and do anything else at the same time.