What kind of resolution are you looking for in a timeout? Milliseconds? You could separate serial communications and timeouts in two separate controls. And what kind of event are you looking for?

Phillip

>Hi:
>I was wondering... Is there any way to define and raise a custom event in VFP ?
>If you found the answer, please let me know. I need it desperately !
>
>By the way. Anybody knows about an ActiveX to handle serial communitations
>in VFP with timeout events or at least more powerfull than MSComm32 ??
>
>Thanks in advance
>Joe