I did that with a DBF file to stre the log and a grid on the main form.

>Dear All,
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>I am building a server app and I want to have a area in my main form wherein I can output the status of each processed client request ( 'Processing request #24985348... Done.' ), like am 'log window'.
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>I tried to put a Richtext control (so I can save log as a text file) but it unnecessarily uses up server memory.
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>Any help is of course highly appreciated.
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>TIA,
>
>Dennis