Re: Howdy Folks

2022-11-17 Thread Michael Oke, II
e timer to come to the > party. > > > > Just a thought. > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of > Virgil > > Bierschwale > > Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2022 9:48 PM > > To: profoxt

Re: Howdy Folks

2022-11-16 Thread Eric Selje
profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Virgil > Bierschwale > Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2022 9:48 PM > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > Subject: Re: Howdy Folks > > thanks, that is probably what I will end up doing. > just amazes me that I can't find the original tool. > o

RE: Howdy Folks

2022-11-16 Thread Darren
it almost immediately rather than waiting for the timer to come to the party. Just a thought. -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Virgil Bierschwale Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2022 9:48 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Howdy

Re: Howdy Folks

2022-11-16 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
thanks, that is probably what I will end up doing. just amazes me that I can't find the original tool. oh well, I noticed a lot of the old foxpro resource sites I used to use are no longer in existence. On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 5:21 PM Paul H. Tarver wrote: > I did something similar back in

RE: Howdy Folks

2022-11-15 Thread Paul H. Tarver
I did something similar back in VFP6 where I added a VFP timer object to the main page and then we set the interval to 3-5 minutes (I can't really remember exactly how long) and the timer method would fire and check to see if a "SHUTDOWN" file was found and if so, it would display a message to

Re: Howdy Folks

2022-11-15 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
thanks, Virgil On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 4:25 PM Michael Oke, II wrote: > I have a copy on one of my production systems. Once I get done here I can > look for the name and where I originally sourced it from. Might have been > cpptimer or something like that. > > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 13:53

Re: Howdy Folks

2022-11-15 Thread Michael Oke, II
I have a copy on one of my production systems. Once I get done here I can look for the name and where I originally sourced it from. Might have been cpptimer or something like that. On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 13:53 Eric Selje wrote: > Is this Visual FoxPro? I think the key would be to add a timer

Re: Howdy Folks

2022-11-15 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
thanks, may have to do it that way and I do have some code already that I have found, but I know there is a simple tool out there in a library format that I used to use that worked real good. On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 3:53 PM Eric Selje wrote: > Is this Visual FoxPro? I think the key would be to

Re: Howdy Folks

2022-11-15 Thread Eric Selje
Is this Visual FoxPro? I think the key would be to add a timer object to your _VFP object that checks for the existence of that file and if it finds it run the app's shutdown method. Eric On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 2:25 PM Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > Been a long time. > I'm back maintaining a