bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras) (07/29/90)
Is Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) for Windows just some sort of transfer protocol. Can it be implemented over TCP/IP, or other transports? Has it? If someone could e-mail me the DDE spec, I would greatly appreciate it. What I want to do it write an application in Unix that will talk to windows programs, and want it to update spreadsheet programs as information is availible on the network. Is this protocol standard? Can the Mac use it? Please post, e-mail, snail-mail, ANYTHING!!! Any help would greatly be appreciated. +-----------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Bill Poitras | Polygen Corporation | {princeton mit-eddie | | (bill) | Waltham, MA USA | bu sunne}!polygen!bill | | | | bill@polygen.com | +-----------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) (07/30/90)
In article <812@stewart.UUCP> bill@stewart.UUCP (Bill Poitras) writes: >Is Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) for Windows just some sort of transfer >protocol. DDE is a communications protocol for use between MS-Windows applications. In its usual use this requires pseudo-shared memory (since chunks of data are passed between applications by transfering the memory HANDLE. > Can it be implemented over TCP/IP, or other transports? You would need some program sitting on your PC to handle the transfer of DDE requests from MS-Windows to/from Unix. > Has >it? If someone could e-mail me the DDE spec, I would greatly appreciate >it. Isn't it given (such as it is) in the back of one of the SDK manuals? I'm sure (if my memory serves me right) that's where we got this information. > What I want to do it write an application in Unix that will >talk to windows programs, and want it to update spreadsheet programs >as information is availible on the network. Is this protocol standard? We have a (commerical) program which allows Unix-based applications to use DDE to/from MS-Windows. In fact, we use Unix/Informix controlled by Excel and/or Word-For-Windows... More information on request (lest I get flamed for advertising :-) Chris -- VISIONWARE LTD | UK: chris@vision.uucp JANET: chris%vision.uucp@ukc 57 Cardigan Lane | US: chris@vware.mn.org OTHER: chris@vision.co.uk LEEDS LS4 2LE | BANGNET: ...{backbone}!ukc!vision!chris England | VOICE: +44 532 788858 FAX: +44 532 304676 -------------- "VisionWare: The home of DOS/UNIX/X integration" --------------
patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) (07/31/90)
In article <812@stewart.UUCP> bill@stewart.UUCP (Bill Poitras) writes: >Is Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) for Windows just some sort of transfer >protocol. Can it be implemented over TCP/IP, or other transports? DDE is a message scheme for communication between windows in the MS Windows environment. In order to even use DDE a program must be able to link with the MS Windows libraries to get the PostMessage/SendMessage calls. This being the case, I'm fairly certain it would be impossible to set up DDE between a MS Window and an XWindow (though I do hate to say anything is impossible). However, as an FYI, I know that a company called DaVinci has created a program that allows DDE messages to go across a network, so that one window can talk to another window on a different computer. -- "Organized fandom is composed of a bunch of nitpickers with a thing for trivial pursuit." -Harlan Ellison Patrick Deupree -> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us