John, Christof wrote a wonderful article in FoxPro Advisor that explains how to do exactly what you want to do. Complete with code!
I think there may be similar code up on www.news2news.com? Worth checking out. Malcolm <snip> Monitor File Changes from Visual FoxPro http://my.advisor.com/doc/17951 Download http://my.advisor.com/wFiles.nsf/vFileID/granl72-04/$file/granl72-04z.zip <snip> Here's how make sure your application (almost) instantly knows when a new file is added to a directory. By Christof Wollenhaupt, contributing editor Q: Our application needs to import files as soon as they are placed in a particular directory. Instead of polling the directory for new files every second, I want to use the Windows API. Could the new API binding capability in VFP 9 help me in this regard? </snip> _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
