Re: dde stuff & winsock.e
- Posted by "F. Dowling" <dobehe at NETTAXI.COM> Jun 07, 1998
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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?