Thx! I'm reading his article now.

Scott

ps; I love your pic ... I can tell you are a straight-laced kind of guy. :-D

>Andrew Coates wrote an article about it in Feb 2001 issue of foxtalk.
>
>>Hi there.
>>
>>A client just asked me if it would be difficult to incorporate some form of
>>instant messaging into our database app.
>>
>>I thought to myself, well ... sure some form of message database where users centrally post message records, and this is checked for any new messages per user... However, this is a pollling type process and a lot of users would end up polling this database table creating undue network traffic.
>>
>>Does anyone have a suggestion as to what to use to allow workstations to listen for messages that are sent directly to them.
>>
>>Is there an activex control and dll or something that anyone on the UT might recommend?
>>
>>TIA, Scott