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From: Joel Garrett
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 1991 18:22
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 1991 18:22
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Hello all, I have a question regarding DDE, specifically pertaining to the DDE section of the Petzold book (Chapter 17). The first example in this chapter is that of calling a DDE server from withing Excel. Well, we plan on getting Excel for Windows, but I'd still like to experiment with what we currently have which happens to be the Windows version of Wingz. Can I just type in the same info into an Wingz Spreadsheet cell (=DDEPOP|US_ Population!US) and have the same result? Also, is it possible to send messages in the opposite direction as in this example so that, for example, I could have a DDE client start up excel, have excel open up a file that had been specified in an earlier dialog in the client possibly perform some simple transformations and then send the transformed data to the client for further use? Is it possible to send commands and such to Excel from the client to do things like execute excel commands and macros and such? I assume there would have be some documentatio somewhere of the standard Excel DDE Topics and Items? Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have... Joel Garrett garrett@brahms.udel.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!wuarchive!udel!brahms.udel.edu!garrett From: garrett@brahms.udel.edu (Joel Garrett) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: DDE Questions/Information, please... Message-ID: <17497@brahms.udel.edu> Date: 10 Jan 91 18:22:04 GMT Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 22