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Sending a WinPopUp Message

Does anyone know how to send a message to WinPopUp thru VB5?  I've looked at the BroadcastSystemMessage call but that seems to be a little bit more low level that what I want.  I simply want to be able to send a little popup message to a specific user or all users.  Thanks!
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joe3, what are you trying to do?  Users where?  On a network?
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I need to send a message to all users that are still in our computer lab near closing time.  I would like WinPopUp to come up with the message I send stating something like "The lab closes in 15 minutes, please finish up and log out."
joe3, You're best bet is to write an app that would be installed on each machine as a service.  The apps would operate in listen mode.  Your computer would have the controlling app that would connect to each running app in the network which in turn would post the message on the screen.  This isn't a perfectly simple solution; however, the only easier solution is to buy software to perform this task.  Check out the winsock example in the VB5 docs.

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I rejected it because:
1) I didn't realize that "reopen question" is actually a rejection
2) I don't have the time to do that.  I know there is a way to send messages to WinPopUp and writing a whole other set of programs to do it.  WinPopUp is the standard messaging system used by Win95 and my boss wants me to use it.
I'm ok with it, reject this answer and see if you get a better one.  I did do a check and found some articles in the win95 resource kit, do you have access to it?  I can email you if you'd like.
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No, I don't have access to it, please do email me.  I would greatly appreciate any help I can get.  

I have the problem solved for the moment by shelling out and running NET.EXE to send the message, but that's kind of a clunky way to do it.

I appreciate your help.
So you're running WinPopUp on each of the client computers.  I'll look into it in the morning.  I don't have your email address.
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Yes, WinPopUp runs on each client computer.

email: joe@bcc.cba.ua.edu
i had to buy this question :) and it didn't have the answer. joe3 did you ever find a way to access winpopup thru api? i have found a sample but it doesn't work you can find the sample at:
www.devx.com/upload/free/features/vbpj/1998/101tips_6.htm
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