>I got it working today. Great sense of relief because I would have had to retool myself for VB if it didn't work.
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>Haven't gotten into any serious implementation yet. Merely was able to make the example files (simplerequest.scx,simplerequest.sct, simplerequest.pjx and simplerequest.pjt) work. I did need to add a main prg to hold the READ EVENTS for the exe to work stand alone outside of VFP IDE. And it would not work at all on a machine without the Bloomberg license. Kept trying to connect.Bill,
That's great news - glad to hear of your success! So to get information from Bloomberg, are you just making method calls passing the ticker symbol? I remember hearing of a Bloomberg API where you're using FTP to make rate requests and then retrieving a text file from their FTP site when they process the request. I'm hoping this control acts a little differently?
As for the license, will this work on a machine that has Open Bloomberg or is a different license required?
If you're willing, I would be interested in looking at your project code to see how easy/difficult the control is to use (yes, you can remove the control from your form so as not to legally freak out anyone).
Laterness,
Jon
Jon Rosenbaum
Devcon Drummer