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Creating an Out-of-Process COM
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19/11/2003 15:49:16
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
COM/DCOM and OLE Automation
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00851628
Message ID:
00851632
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15
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>Hi
>I need to issue a REPORT FORM command from a web service ( a multithreaded dll ). I have been told that the only way to go is to wrap the class with the REPORT command into an Out-Of-Process COM Exe. This sounds really nice, but i don't have a clue as for how to implement.
>
>Thanks all in advance for you help

Simple but not short. Create your class as a COM object, i.e.
define class myprint olepublic as custom
...
procedure PrintThis
_screen.visible=.t.
_screen... {more code to make VFP invisible but to make it think it is - make it small and off
  the visible area, i.e. negative coordinates}
report form ... 
endproc
enddefine
Now build this as an executable, say printing.exe. If it runs on the same server, it will self-register when built, else you have to register it (only once, if you don't change the component GUIDs).

In the calling app, all you have to do is
oPrint=createobject("printing.myprint")
oPrint.PrintThis()
Of course, you may want to pass it some parameters, hide the _screen when done etc.

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