Re: Sending messages between separate forms

u can use dbms pipes to send and receive message, also use when-timer expired trigger to check for messages in the pipe that is one way to communicate between forms

HTH
Arvind

Lars Jørgen Tvedt wrote:

> Hi!
>
> We are developing a number of separate forms (Forms 4.5), and
> would like the forms to be able to send messages between each
> others.
>
> One way to do this is perhaps to set a global to a value, activate
> the target form, and in a WHEN-WINDOW-ACTIVATED trigger in the target,
> check the global variable for a message.
>
> Have anyone done anything like this? Is there a better way to
> communicate between alread running forms?
>
> Lars Joergen Tvedt
>
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