1. Re: dde stuff & winsock.e
At 06:30 AM 10/6/98 -0400, you wrote:
>F. Dowling wrote:
>>does *anyone* have any idea of how to initiate a converstation with a dde
>>server through euphoria.
>>Even if it was through running a dde.exe like file with command line
>>parameters.
>>Anyone?
>
>Well, I have had some success "driving" Internet Explorer (3.02) by passing
>it files using the Win32 ShellExecute() function where those files (JPGs,
>GIFs, and HTMs) are set to open with DDE in the registry. Thus you can
>call ShellExecute with the data file and it will open with IExplore.exe
>without initiating a new instance of IExplore.exe each time. How to
>receive replies
>from IExplore is beyond me. This is really just a convenient and not very
>sophisticated use of the registry and not data "exchange" exactly.
>
>Later,
>John Cannon
That's an idea I hadn't thought of
Also, a question to the makers of winsock.e:
I've noticed many internet proggies can connect to the [offline] IP 127.0.0.1
Yet you can't do this through euphoria's winsock.e.. anything i'm missing?
