I asked this once on the list and got no response. I found a workaround, but the issue has just come up again. Using 7.6. I have a very complicated set of data (read-only) that I will need to have refreshed every 10 minutes on a large factory monitor. In my last attempt I ended up going with a very cool looking form with a form timer that works very nicely to refresh the 8 temporary-table DBGrids located on the form.
That isn't going to work with the new spec I was given. A report might work better than a form for this one, but I still need the report to 'refresh' every 10 minutes. I know that if I had an MDI form with an alias, my form timer could close an MDI form. But if I put up an MDI report, I don't see where my timer could close that report and generate a new one, is there? I could even put up a PDF file, but I would have to close that PDF file in order to refresh. Any ideas? BTW: You'll see another email from me shortly asking for design ideas on this one.... Karen
