Looking For Suggestions

[Ken Ray]

Monte,

How do you 'set the DDE registry entries on startup'? I'm using DDE also,
but had the problem with the name being hard-coded as "EXT", so I'm very
interested...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Monte Goulding" <monte.goulding at senet.com.au>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:57 AM
Subject: RE: Looking For Suggestions


> Just for iterest:
>
> What is it about EXT.dll that makes you app unstable? I use it all the
time
> for just this purpose (along with opening custom file types in currently
> running apps). I found that it works very well. The only problem I've
found
> is that it doesn't work if you have two apps registered to use it on the
> same system. All I do to workaround this problem is set the DDE registry
> entries on startup and delete them on shutdown.
>
> Anyway, I'm interested in any problems you have found.
>
> PS: It'd be nice if Scott added DDE to the engine because it's is now the
> only thing I use EXT.dll for!
>
> Cheers
>
> Monte
>
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