I think I've refined my routine where I'm now a little happier
I have public variable (unimessage) defined in my MAIN.prg
In the MAIN FORM, I have a timer with the following code
IF USED("SYSTEMFILE") && in case it is closed i don't want an error
GO TOP IN systemfile
IF !EMPTY(systemfile.tellall)
IF !ALLTRIM(systemfile.tellall)==ALLTRIM(unimessage)
unimessage=ALLTRIM(systemfile.tellall) && so it doesn't keep
popping up ad nauseum
DO FORM trmessage
endif
ENDIF
ENDIF
Thank y'all for comments
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sytze de Boer wrote:
>
> > It may be a simple peer to peer where the application is on a users local
> > shared drive
> > It may be a windows 2000 or windows 2003 system or exchange server
> >
> > I'm looking for a simple system where the user clicks a button, types a
> > message, and all users logged into my accounting system see the message.
>
> The simplest way I can think of would be to make a 'messages' directory
> underneath your server data directory (somewhere accessible to all users
> of your app). You type a message into your form, and it saves a file
> with a unique key for the filename.
>
> Then you have a timer polling that directory for message files that
> haven't been seen yet, and presenting them to the user. After a day or
> two, another process cleans up the messages directory.
>
> You could implement this with database tables, too.
>
>
> Paul
>
>
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