Polling and alerting

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Good afternoon,
It's been awhile since I've posted a question regarding my Budget Tracking app. Now that people are beginning to use it (yippee!) and I'm beginning enhancements, I'd like to include in the IM-type chatting forms the ability to alert another user that they have an incoming message (can I even make the form open programatically once an alert is signalled - but NOT give it the focus, so as to not disturb the other user/s?).

Right now, users can IM to other users online (through a roster) and PUBLIC (all users will see these messages). There are no subsets; it's either one or all. In the future, I may very well make a multi-select-type box where a user can send the same message to several, but not all, users at the same time.

I would like the alert mechanism to only execute if the receiving user is NOT in the chat form.

Any suggestions / ideas would be truly appreciated.

Thank you!
Derek
 
Derek,

I would suggest that you use/create an instant messager that is COM
compatible that you can reference in your access application. Polling is
simply too resource intensive, a better bet would be to use TCP sockets and
UDP. Google for Intant Messenging and VB, I seem to recall that there was a
product call Chatty written in VB that had the source code available.

Dan

Derek Wittman said:
Good afternoon,
It's been awhile since I've posted a question regarding my Budget Tracking
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app. Now that people are beginning to use it (yippee!) and I'm beginning
enhancements, I'd like to include in the IM-type chatting forms the ability
to alert another user that they have an incoming message (can I even make
the form open programatically once an alert is signalled - but NOT give it
the focus, so as to not disturb the other user/s?).
Right now, users can IM to other users online (through a roster) and
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PUBLIC (all users will see these messages). There are no subsets; it's
either one or all. In the future, I may very well make a multi-select-type
box where a user can send the same message to several, but not all, users at
the same time.
 
I'll have to check it out. I don't actually have a VB compiler, though. COM compatible? Please explain. I'm a bit new to programming (only a handful of months). I'm not a network guy or a security guy, so I have to ask. How will the firewall affect TCP sockets and UDP?

Thank you!
Derek
 
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