Hi Ben,
Well, I don't know what happened with my previous reply - All that typing up in smoke! Here's another shot at it:
The basics of DDE communication are:
- Start a conversation with the DDE server with DDEINITIATE()
- Do stuff on the server like execute commands (DDEEXECUTE()), send data to the server (DDEPOKE()), retrieve data from the server (DDEREQUEST())
- End the conversation with DDETERMINATE()
You should be able to pick up the Service and Topic parameters that are needed by the
DDEINITIATE() call, as well as any available parameters for the functions in item 2 from the sample C++ code you've got. If not, post the code here and we'll give it a shot.
Cheers,
Andrew
>Hi Andrew,
>
>Thanks for your reply. I am trying to fire lisp commands to a specific CAD package, I have communicated with the CAD Package's development team and have C++ code that theoretically gives advice on the DDE Sevices available within their package. I have had absolutely no exposure to the poorly documented DDE and was hoping that somebody could direct me towards a source of information.
>
>Kind Regards,
>
>Ben
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