Michel,

>>Also I don't think PHDBase will work in COM mode last time I checked.
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>That depends on various issues. Nobody has been able to really make that pattern. I worked with Jim on that at several occasions. He could only solve the issue if I give him a common pattern. So, it failed because of that.
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>It seems to be related to various factors such as RAM, PageFile, size of your EXE, what's in the results, etc. For now, for example, if I turn it into COM, it'll work. But, it's not something I can afford to rely on. I can't afford, as you know, to have this stupid message box popping up on the console which will lock the application. That has always been the big issue with PHDBase.

May I ask another question(s) regarding your current PHD usage and COM. I always had a monolithic WIN32 exe and unintercepted "phd fatal error" from time to time. For my new application I suddenly discovered a conflict with certain ActiveX which makes me reconsider this approach. If I place PHDBase in separate out-of-process automation server does make any difference to standard Win32 Exe? Do you have in your current configuration a separate Win32 .EXE which is launched for every search with certain parameters and it creates a temporary table as a hitlist ?
I presume,in-process DLL doesn't solve my problem at all, does it?

TIA
Michael