How are you initiating the scanning program from within VFP? have you tried createprocess and waitforsingleobject apis? that will stop processing on your vfp app until the initiated process finishes...


>I have an instance twaincom.exe
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>How can i check from vfp wether that instance is sill there under system process under task manager.
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>because i run the scanning program which uses the twaincom.exe when i scan, it creates an instance of twaincom.exe and when the scanning job is completed fully then it automatically clears the instance twaincom.exe from process, at that moment i need to run another program, after the instance is cleared.
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>Please can you tell me, how i can do this.
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>Thank you very much in Advance.