My department is attempting to "web-enable" a FoxPro 2.6 application. Our "web consultant" has designed a framework to do this. His HTML representation of our menus and selection criteria dialog boxes store values in a one record FoxPro table. One of the fields in this table is called status.

This status field will contain a 1 if this is a new request, 2 if the data for the html page is being created and 3 if the FoxPro side is completed.

Our FoxPro program uses an DO WHILE .T. ... ENDDO loop rather that a Foundation READ. Within this loop, we call a function called
wbPoll(). It looks at the one record table. If the status field is 1 it scatters the record changes the status field to 2 and changes our cEvent variable to "GET DATA". This cEvent variable is checked in a DO CASE...ENDCASE structure inside the DO WHILE .T. ... ENDDO loop.

Is this an acceptable way of doing things? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Dan Rhymes