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  1. Mar 27th, 2007, 03:58 PM #1
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    Exclamation DDE Problem

    i'm making a simulator using vb6 and i need to link this simulator to another program to read variables from it and write on some other variables also in that program...and i know the SERVICE & TOPIC names for that program but i don't know how to start the channel and start requesting and poking
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    Re: DDE Problem


    What program are you trying to affect? Is it one that you wrote or that you have the source code for?
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    Re: DDE Problem

    i didn't write it and i don hv its source...it is a program installed on my pc just like any application (winamp,word,matlab.....etc) and if u want 2 know more about it...it is called TRISTATION this program is used to program a turbomachinery controller called TRICON
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    Re: DDE Problem

    Here is an example done by Eric Wilson. Example of how to use DDEML in Visual Basic. DDEML is the Win32 API mechanism for performing interprocess communication via DDE. The example includes a server and a client.

    http://www.vbcode.com/asp/showzip.as...zip&theID=5916
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