On 2/17/06, entropyreduction <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > DDE plugin is easy.
I barely managed to get a DDE execute function working in my old LUA plugin -- but this probably has more to do with the fact that I am horrible at coding in c than any real complexity in the DDE area. :) I'll finish it. That would be wonderful. I could still put it to a lot of use. Do you need to have more than one dde topic open at once? Off the top of my head, I can't think of any time I'd need more than one topic open at once. If so I have to go the handle route, and pass out connection handles. > If you're happy with just one connection to one app at a time, bit > more straight forward More straight forward is good for me, but I can't speak for what others might need. These types of transaction type are possible. Which of theses > do you need? > > execute transaction. > poke transaction. > request transaction. Execute is a must. Poke and request would be extremely useful. Begin/End an advise loop. I can't think of any need for this for anything I'd be doing from Powerpro. Instruct server to wait until the client acknowledges that it > received the previous data item before sending the next data > item. This might be useful -- but to be honest, I can't think of anything I'd actually need it for. Is it reasonable to regard requests and connection setups > as taking no time, or should they be threaded: i.e. are you happy > that PowerPro wil block for the duration of the DDE transaction, or do > you need to launch transaction and be informed wiehn if finished by > callback? This is a hard one. About 80-90% of what I want to do would work fine with PowerPro blocking for the duration of the transaction, but there's that 10-20% where the more complex to script callback method would be a lot better. Probably the best option would be to provide both methods, but failing that the callback method is more general. -- Randall Gridspace Consulting: http://www.gridspace.net/ Frugal Webmaster Blog: http://www.frugalwebmaster.net/ Software Gadgets Blog: http://softwaregadgets.gridspace.net/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
