Hi Bela,

>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)

I had thought about this possibility as well, since it eliminates the DDE-setup.
Will this interrupt running code in the application object or wait for periods of inactivity like a timer event ? Is the interrupt/wait behaviour documented/stable over different vfp versions ?

regds

thomas