If OnComm is not firing at all check to see that you have your RThreshold set correctly. If you have it set to 0 OnComm doesn't fire for input.

>Hey Folks,
>
>I'm flailing with both these controls and getting nowhere. Any tips would be appreciated.
>
>I'm using VFp 6.0 and Mere Mortals 6.0a on Win98 for this test but I'm not using the mmf ActiveX
>wrapper class.
>
>I'm not able to retrieve a selected date or time from the DT Picker. I've put up a simple modal form,
>dropped an OLE Control, Inserted the DT Picker as described in the VFp docs (as far as I can tell)
>and named it axDate. I've also dropped a simple textbox to display the value selected in the DT Picker.
>The form and controls load and the DT Picker allows the selection of a date both by using the calendar
>and keyboard entry. But I'm unable to retrieve the selected date even to display in the text box.
>Through endless flails, I've tried referring to the selected date as everything from
>ThisForm.axDate.Value (silly me) to the separate components of ..Month, ..Day,
>..Year and have tried to use the ReadExpression method as a 'Get' as in:
>
> ThisForm.axDate.ReadExpression(ThisForm.axDate.Value)
>
>A couple of variations on 'property Value not found' are thrown but that's the basic message. There
>certainly seems to be a 'Value' property on the DT Picker Properties sheet. By the way, I am selecting
>the axDate control from the context menu Object List to be sure I've got a correct reference.
>
>I'm sure it seems silly that if I can't even get the date out of an ActiveX control that I'd even try to
>use MSComm but that's me. Stop me if you've heard this but things that I've done for years
>procedurally (gasp) border on the impossible now that everything's been made so simple.
>
>I'm using an WDS RF TriCoder and have revised Worthington's VB demo code into
>several successful versions of data collection and posting but can't transfer that capability to
>VFp. I've checked the ut knowledge base and looked at the readme that accompanied Waleed Hasan's
>download on the subject among others. My code is fundamentally very similar (famous last words) to his
>'interrupt driven' example which is the technique that I've used successfully in VB. Frankly, it seems
>that once the port is open in VB, the control manages communication and the code I put
>in the OnComm() method executes fine. In VFp, I'm able to initialize and open the port and get
>'444' as a CommID but my OnComm code is not executing. I know that there are a zillion things
>I may have done wrong in translating the VB code to VFp but any general comments you may
>have would be appreciated. My outer condition checks are for This.CommEvent = 2 and
>This.InBufferCount > 0 but neither of those conditions seem ever to be met. CommEvent = -1.
>
>I'll have to go back to VB to get my current project done but I sure would like to work in VFp with
>the MMF.
>
>Anyway, if you all could just help me get the date out of the ActiveX DT Picker, that would be a start.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Mike Holland