>>Hi All,
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>>I need to send a notification to a workstation that data has changed, how to do that with VFP ?
>>Please help.
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>>TIA
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>Hi Senna,
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>I'm working on an application that will need to do something similar my idea is:
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>Create a table on the server that would contain a UserName field and a Message field. Then have a message object in each application that will poll that file on a timed basis (say every 10 minutes) and display a form with any messages to the user. That form would allow the user to clear any messages and possibly send messages.
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>I haven't started working on it yet, would like to see how some other people are handling it.
Take a look at MSMQ (MS Message Queue). It's meant to do be used in these kinds of situations. Rick has a class on his web site to handle communication with it (
http://www.west-wind.com) and I'm pretty sure there is a white-paper on the Microsoft site (VFP section).