>>Does anyone know if there is a way to have one VFP 6 or 8 EXE send a message to another VFP app running on the same PC? I have a standard business applicaton and am adding a seperate VFP communications app that will communicate across the internet. They have to be seperate EXEs because the communication app has to be able to switch between multiple data sets. If I just set a flag in a table or whatever then the 2nd app has to constantly monitor it off a timer. Any and all ideas are welcome.
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>You can do it with timers, but IMHO, what you need here is the event raising. Check out my article "Raise Events from your Applications" in February 2001 FoxPro Advisor if you have it. I had a session on that at San Diego DevCon 2001 and one of the samples was Visual FoxPro Instant Messenger which does just what you describe.

Nick,
I do not subscribe to the FoxPro Advisor so I don't have access to the code and I assume the work is under contract so you can't just give it to me. However, I just purchased the "MegaFox:" book from Hentzenwerke Publishing (I can't recommend it enough) and they give an example of using the WinSoc ActiveX and UDP. It looks simple enough. Do you think this would work?
Yes, the Instant Messenger sounds really great. Is that avalable anywhere?