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
