I searched the forums and I do see a similar thread to this. Apart from the suggest to use RIGHT, there isn’t much feedback … …
My requirement is this … one Xojo desktop application will write to a file (intermittently) and another Xojo desktop application will display the latest (not already displayed) contents of the file in a form control (listbox) in (near)real time.
do either the reader or writer open the file for exclusive access ?
if either does does that affects what the other has to do.
if not and both can write & read at the same time then the reader just reads from where it is until eof of file & plops that into your form periodically and then, because its at the end of file, pauses and waits until there is more data to read some time later.