Looking For Suggestions

[Chipp Walters]

Monte and/or Ken..
I know DDE allows for intra communication between apps. But, how do you do
it? And can you give an example of why you'd do it?

thanks!

-Chipp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Monte Goulding
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:58 PM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: RE: Looking For Suggestions
>
>
> Yes the name is hard coded to EXT. From what I can tell that
> seems to be the
> problem with having more than one app use the DDE.
>
> I do this at startup:
>
> get setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\iCoachRowing\shell\open\ddeexec\",
> "[fileOpen(%1)]")
>     get
> setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\iCoachRowing\shell\open\ddeexec\app
> lication\"
> , "EXT")
>     get
> setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\iCoachRowing\shell\open\ddeexec\topic\",
> "System")
>
>
> and this at shutdown:
>
> get setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\iCoachRowing\shell\open\ddeexec\", "")
>   get
> setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\iCoachRowing\shell\open\ddeexec\app
> lication\"
> , "")
>   get
> setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\iCoachRowing\shell\open\ddeexec\top
> ic\", "")
>
> Please excuse the wrapping.
>
> PS: change "iCoachRowing" with your app name.
>
> Cheers
>
> Monte
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com
> > [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Ken Ray
> > Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2002 4:49 PM
> > To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> > Subject: Re: Looking For Suggestions
> >
> >
> > 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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