Michael..

The concept is similar but I still need the NET tools to get that portion of the access info. Yahoo pager - you need to be online or connected to the internet - won't work in this (any many) applications.






>It would seem pretty straightforward to have a shared table to hold messages, and for the application to poll that table periodically, pop up any messages in a window with a reply button, etc. I seem to recall a method like that being used in a book on Network Programming for FoxPro - but perhaps yahoo pager is more the way to go?
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>>I have a client that needs an app that will include a feature to see who is on his lan (network neighborhood) and possibly communicate with those users who are running a matching app on thier systems - sort of like an Instant Message but more of an inhouse email.
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>>My first reaction was to write it with C++ but then I thought that maybe this could be done with VFP.
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>>What do you think? Is this network viewing/accessing ability something in VFP or that can be with add on third party tools?
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>>Thanks