Probably you may get help from Thread #709963.

>Hello Yuri,
>Can you please tell me.
>I want to write a do loop to see when the process stops in the task manager
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>the process name is twaincom.
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>this is a scanning program when the scanning starts the instance appears in the process.
>and when the scanning job is finished the twaincom process disappears from the task manager processes list.
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>so, how can i check that from my VFP program.
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>Thank you very much.