>>I am having trouble with time out errors in FaxPlus by EllTech Development when I am sending a fax. It worked fine for a day, then started with these problems. Has anyone else experienced these problems? If so, how did you fix them. Thanks
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>>Ed
>I need to fax from VFP 3.0 so I downloaded the FaxPlus 2.0 demo and tried to run it. I could not get past adding the control to a form. The help gave a list of settings for the "action" method but I could not find it in the properties list. Did you manage to solve your problems? This looks like the ideal tool for the job if I can get it to work.
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>Thanks
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>Peter

Hi Peter:

Welcome to the FaxPlus Twilight Zone. FaxPlus was written for VB. In theory it should work fine with VFP, however that is not true. I could not get the control to work properly at all. What I had to do was call the .Dll directly. When I did that, it worked great..... for awhile. After two weeks of flawless automated performance, it would no longer work. In all fairness though, this may be a problem with VFP. The application that did the faxing was a server that was loaded with timers that started different methods at different times. I am beginning to believe that if a timer is running in an application constantly it can have detrimental effects on the application. I am testing this theory now. If this is the case, the problems that I latter encountered might stem from the timers. There are some "gotchas" associated with calling the .dll directly. This mainly has to do with parameter type declaration when the .dll is declared. If you have a problem with this let me know and I will send you my declarations. If this problem can be overcome it does solve pertty much all your faxing problems.