>I've been working with the MSComm control for a few weeks now to communicate with a meter's serial port. The meter sends text strings to my serial port and I send text commands to it's serial port.
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>My question is I've been told using the OnComm event to respond to events is not reliable in VFP but I've been doing it successfully for some time now. I thought VFP didn't raise ActiveX events. Am I mistaken. If not why is this working?
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>Someone please clarify.
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VFP doesn't sink ActiveX events - the event fires, but since VFP doesn't know about it, VFP doesn't take any action based on it. VFPCOM allows you to sink ActiveX events in VFP using VFP code - lets VFP respond to the occurance of the OnComm event.

Whether or not VFP does anything, the event still fires.