Windows DDE

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, since onw week I'm trying to set up to access a DDE-server with perl on a windows pc. (I don't like windows, but some programs only run on widows.)
I've found WIN32::DDE (with ::Client and ::Callback) but it is not updated since '98 and if you use it you'll get error messages and even the instructions are contradictory: ::Callback is called, while the comment in ::Callback says that the access should be done by the DDE.dll. At last 'ppm' of ActivePerl' does not know about WIN32::DDE.

Does anybody has either successfully worked with WIN32::DDE or knows about another solution. Especially with wxWindows should be a nice and easy to handle package for Perl not a big problem.

Thanks in advance for any hint,
have a nice weekend,
Carl

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Re: Windows DDE by JamesNC (Chaplain) on May 11, 2003 at 06:38 UTC
Check out this link... http://jenda.krynicky.cz/#Win32::Editor::PFE ...might help to mention it in future posts and what ver of Perl too. James	[reply]
Re: Windows DDE by Jenda (Abbot) on May 11, 2003 at 16:48 UTC
I did work successfully with DDE quite some time ago and the Win32::Editor::PFE mentioned by JamesNC is one of the results. But I did not need DDE for very long so I do not remember much. Anyway ... could you give us more information? What error messages? What program are you trying to access? What does your code look like? ... Jenda Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Rick Osborne Edit by castaway: Closed small tag in signature	[reply]
Re: Windows DDE by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on May 12, 2003 at 13:57 UTC
I used Win32::DDE::Client to work with a DDE server in this script.	[reply]
Re: Re: Windows DDE by Anonymous Monk on May 14, 2003 at 08:52 UTC
Monks, thanks for your answers, but Win32::DDE seems not to be a very good solution! First Win::DDE::Client does not know the order DDE->ADVISE, where the DDE->client waits for what the DDE->Server puts in the ADVISE-channel to the Client. And this I need! Second - but this is only my suspicion - it does not know the EVENTS that are probably set by the DDE-Server. They indicate that s.th. was put into tha channel from the DDE-server. Win::32::Client sets a TIMEOUT itself - hmmm. On this site You can see - I think - a complete use of the DDE possibilites of a DDE-client. It discribes a DDE-Client opject, unfortunately in VisualBasic. Anyway, thanks to all of you Carl	[reply]