Re: Forms 4.5 & sockets
Date: 3 Feb 1995 22:30:10 GMT
Message-ID: <3guapi$1lm_at_uuneo.neosoft.com>
Joe Halpin (jhalpin_at_netcom.com) wrote:
: Is it possible for a Forms 4.5 application running under Windows 3.1
: to receive messages from another machine asynchronously? Or does the
: Forms application have to run a user exit explicitly to wait for a
: message on a socket?
: Our scenario is that our Forms 4.5 application will be interacting
: with background processes running on a Unix machine as well as our NT
: Server machine. I'm trying to figure out a way for the Forms app to
: make a request to one of these processes, and not have to sit there
: and wait for a response (which might not come for some time).
Here is an idea. (Maybe a bad one, though) Forms 4.5 has timer events. Set up a database table to exchange requests and data. Program the timer events to check for a response every so ofton. I have never used timer events so I am not sure how they work. If you would like more information, I can look it up for you in my manuals.
Later,
Steven
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