rehne@daimi.aau.dk (Soren Rehne) (06/11/91)
Soren Rehne Denmark
bonneau@hyper.hyper.com (Paul Bonneau) (06/13/91)
In article <1991Jun11.100942.18657@daimi.aau.dk> rehne@daimi.aau.dk (Soren Rehne) writes: >Soren Rehne >Denmark Yes. It talks to the Program Maneger. If you drag an executable icon from a File Manager window to the Program Manager, it gets "installed" in the group dragged to. DDE is used for the inter-process communication. cheers - Paul Bonneau.
akm@obelix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) (06/13/91)
In article <1991Jun12.215405.17084@hyper.hyper.com> bonneau@hyper.UUCP (Paul Bonneau,,) writes: >In article <1991Jun11.100942.18657@daimi.aau.dk> rehne@daimi.aau.dk (Soren Rehne) writes: > >Yes. It talks to the Program Maneger. If you drag an >executable icon from a File Manager window to the Program >Manager, it gets "installed" in the group dragged to. DDE is >used for the inter-process communication. I'm returning this reply in a hurry because I think the answer given above is wrong. I would have tested it using Spy, but my Development kit is currently off my machine awaiting more disk space. I *believe* that the FileManager and the Program Manager have a couple of undocumented calls that they use to do the info passing. Perhaps someone with better info can confirm this. I seem to recall that the calls are mentioned somewhere in the voluminous SDK docs, but developers are warned not to use them as they are currently not supported. I got the feeling that MS was leaving its options open as far as support was concerned. kartik -- Anant Kartik Mithal akm@cs.uoregon.edu Network Manager, (503)346-4408 (msgs) Department of Computer Science, (503)346-3989 (direct) University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1202
cms2839@isc.rit.edu (a.stranger) (06/14/91)
In article <1991Jun12.215405.17084@hyper.hyper.com> bonneau@hyper.UUCP (Paul Bonneau,,) writes: > >Yes. It talks to the Program Maneger. If you drag an >executable icon from a File Manager window to the Program >Manager, it gets "installed" in the group dragged to. DDE is >used for the inter-process communication. > sorta . the method in which FM and PM does this is kind of " meta-DDE " ; a proprietary method which may or may not be standardized in later versions . you can't really do it with straight DDE . -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ "Imagination keeps the shadows away - Xymox @ @~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~@ @ a.stranger - CMS2839@ritvax.isc.rit.edu @