>>George, David, Charlie,
>>Thanks to all for the input. Because this part of the system can get called many times I think I will just put a flag property for each DLL in the startup form and set it to .t. the 1st time in and check if true each run.
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>John,
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>This might be a better idea, depending on how many DLLs are involved. You could create a single flag (an integer) then use this to set and determine its state via the bit-wise functions. This way you can check multiple conditions with a single line of code.
George,
great idea! Since I'm already using bitwise for other settings in that module it is going to be a snap to do it. Sometimes the obvious is the hardest to see and I sure didn't see that one.
Thanks,
John.
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