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I do not have a strong grasp of the winsock library, but have started
fiddling around with it a bit. My first impression is that using
winsock in Access is a bit unwieldy. I was making a connection to a
daytime server on the Internet to retrieve the current date and time
and the only way I could reliably retrieve the information was to add a
timer event to the form from which I made the connection call. I would
basically use the timer routine to see if the data had returned yet,
and if so, stop the timer. Is there a way to cause the winsock connect
method to block until the data is returned? This is how networking
calls are typically handled in other languages I have worked with. Is
the only way to wait for the data via the timer method or is there a
more elegant approach that this novice is overlooking? Thanks for any
and all help.

Jul 21 '06 #1
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Vincent wrote:
I do not have a strong grasp of the winsock library, but have started
fiddling around with it a bit. My first impression is that using
winsock in Access is a bit unwieldy. I was making a connection to a
daytime server on the Internet to retrieve the current date and time
and the only way I could reliably retrieve the information was to add a
timer event to the form from which I made the connection call. I would
basically use the timer routine to see if the data had returned yet,
and if so, stop the timer. Is there a way to cause the winsock connect
method to block until the data is returned? This is how networking
calls are typically handled in other languages I have worked with. Is
the only way to wait for the data via the timer method or is there a
more elegant approach that this novice is overlooking? Thanks for any
and all help.
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/email/winsock.htm
Jul 25 '06 #2

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