>>>What's the difference?
>>>
>>>Alex.
>>
>>A Bunch -- like in Bananas! (g)
>>
>>What I look at is OLE is pretty much standard in it's way of doing things & in DDE each manufacturer implements 'their' interpretation of what they think DDE is. You must be very familiar with each piece of software's implementation of DDE,
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>>HTH,
>>Tom
>
>So you mean I should use DDE if I need something that OLE doesn't specify?
>
>Alex.


I mean DDE was the first attempt at high level windows messaging. OLE took it's place. Use OLE -- which btw, is now ActiveX... (s).

Tom