J. Landman Gay wrote: > What does one use in place of apple events on Windows machines?
First Microsoft said to use DDE. Then they said don't use DDE, use COM, sine DDE was being phased out. Now that .Net is here they're saying COM is out and there's a new API to use. Yet in the latest versions of MS' own products (Word and Excel) it seems they use DDE. And then there's VBA, the interpreter that uses the protocol de jour to actually get your meathooks into the object models of various apps. But while most of MS' apps use VBA, most non-MS apps don't, so there's nothing like the universality of AE across the MS world. If there's more to this story I would be very grateful to learn it. I could use something like AE on Wintel myself.... In the meantime, the only consistent inter-process communication I've found is launching apps and watching stdin when they exit, but even that seems old fashioned in today's event-driven world. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Custom Software and Web Development for All Major Platforms Developer of WebMerge 1.9: Publish any Database on Any Site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
