Doesn't it actually check for a running NETSCAPE.EXE?

I found that even if I started Mozilla and had the DDE name as Netscape, it
still told me that Netscape wasn't running.

Mike Kaply
IBM

David Forrester wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 22:56:18, Michael Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Even if you configure the DDE name to be Netscape, utilities like
> > XWorkPlace Netscape DDE still don't work.
> >
> > I'll probably to this for the 0.9.5, but I don't think it is going to help
> > most apps.
> >
> > XWorkplace is probably checking for a NETSCAPE.EXE running.
> >
>
> As it happens, I recently updated my XWorkplace source so:
>
> It appears to post to the NETSCAPE DDE queue.  Then, if this doesn't
> work, it attempts to start a new copy of NETSCAPE.EXE.  So, if the DDE
> name was configurable in Mozilla, it would work if Mozilla was already
> running.
>
> Of course, we could probably convince Ulrich to make this configurable
> from the XWorkplace end as well :)
>
> --
> David Forrester
> davidfor at terrigal dot net dot au
> http://www.os2world.com/djfos2


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