Bela,
Could you expand on that a bit? I think I understand what you mean but I'm not sure about the details on how to set it up. Thanks!

Is is like this?

oJobApp=CreateObject("VFP_COM_EXE.OLEClass")
oJobApp.DoThisJob("SomeJobName", _VFP.Application)

If this is what you mean, how does the COM object call back the application object?

Or can you do this?

oJobApp=CreateObject("VFP_COM_EXE.OLEClass")
oAppWatcher=CreateObject("clsAppWatcher")
oJobApp.DoThisJob("SomeJobName", oAppWatcher)

define class clsAppWatcher as Custom OLEPUBLIC
lCompleted=.F.
Procedure EndOfProcessing
this.lCompleted=.T.
endproc
endefine

Now can I can periodically poll oApWatcher.lCompleted? My question assumes that inside the out-of-process server, when oJobApp is done with the job, it peforms a call back to oAppWatcher.EndofProcessing() (i.e., an out-of-process server calls back an object's method in the app that instantiated it).

More details please!



>Dear John!
>
>I had very similar problem with Excel and VFP.
>I did the following. Instead to use a polling timer, it would have been better to have an executed event at the time when the com VFP object had finished the data processing, but how to achive it?
>Easy: when I call the method of the process starting I also give the Application object as parameter.
>The com object will call a method on the caller object. (this is the stop event)
>The original caller object is an Application object that I made OLE public and create a method named: OnEndOfDataProcessing and the called COM is calling this method.
>
>This is absolutely asyncron way.
>
>bb
>
>
>>I have read all the threads on this subject and asynchronous processing. I have searched the web and MS.
>>
>>Trouble is everything is so "over my head" that I am unsure I would know the answer if I saw it.
>>
>>I have 10 years exposure (probably 3 years hard time) coding FoxPro 2.6.
>>I have 3 years experience coding VFP 3.0 - VFP 7.0 with 2 years using Visual FoxExpress framework. So, it seems I should be able to understand a little something.
>>
>>My question:
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>>I have a VFE/VFP/COM app. I use it as a dll.
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>>I use this dll from inside a 2.6 style program that is part of a 2.6 style application (EXE). Everything runs under VFP 7.0 and WinXP Pro.
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>>I use the dll to perform database processing. It basically "views" data and is used to update data in that database. This database is otherwise maintained by a different VFE/VFP app. So basically I have a COM object that is used from my 2.6 app, to access the database maintained by a different app.
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>>In my 2.6 app, I use the COM object to pull some data. I can not wait for the data to be delivered (approx. 8 seconds). I need to "ask" for the data and move on to do other things.
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>>I suppose I could modify the COM object to do something, that the 2.6 app could check regularly, to see if the COM object has completed it's data delivery task yet.
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>>I do not mind reading but I can't start at the advanced level. Can someone tell me what VFP functionality provides what I am looking for?
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>>This may be useful in understanding my experience level: I can tell you my COM object is not multithreaded or at least I do not think so. I mention this because some of the threads I have read seem to lean toward MTDLL's. I coded the COM app but a lot of it is still a bit tough for me to comprehend.
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>>Thanks,
>>John