Trying to display messages within a emulator

[ugagrad]

I was not sure how to phrase the subject but here is my dilemna. I have written a program that constantly runs and automates some procedures for my company. I am currently logging information about the state of the process in a free table. I want to also display this information on the screen. I believe an edit or listbox will blow up after awhile and I also don't think they are very "clean". Does anyone know of an OLE object that may work like an old VT100 Emulator. Or does anyone have any other suggestions that may be useful.

Thanks in advance!!!!!

 

[alvechurchdata]

I believe an edit or listbox will blow up after awhile

Are you expecting many thousands of log entries. If so you could base the list box on a SELECT TOP 100 type of query and just show the most recent entries.

Geoff Franklin

http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk

 

[DSummZZZ]

Why not just use a blank form or a blank area of a form with "?" commands?



-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[GriffMG]

I've used an editbox to display the last 3000 lines of text in a log format - most recent at the top, deleting the bottom line on a rolling basis. This hasn't caused a problem yet - I use the system for monitoring and continuous processing, examples run for a month or two at a time (something usually happens that forces a restart by then - new versions, anti-virus updates that sort of thing).



Regards

Griff
Keep [Smile]ing

 

[ugagrad]

Thanks for all of your suggestions.
However, I thought of a way to do it that suits me well.
I created a cursor with one Character field C(50) and put a one column grid on my form and set the control source to that character field. It seems to work very well so far.

Thanks again.

 

[justamistere]

My "AlertTracker" system does the same. A large grid-control on a form. Vfp allows one billion records or rows.

You can add a timer-control to refresh at specific intervals and/or give the user Visual/Audio alerts, even to only specific info coming in, send an email alert.

This timer-interval, is also good time to issue the GO BOTTOM command, to view the Last n-number-of-records added to your grid.