Having two Rev exes talking to each other...

[Derek Bump]

Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) is available for Revolution via the
unsupported Externals Collection.  I have to say though, I've tried it
and it's kinda buggy (or I could never really get it to work right).

I have to say though that sockets are the way to go.  If you want to
avoid sockets, then a universal file on the system where commands are
written to/read from would be a good way to go as well.


Derek Bump
Dreamscape Software
http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com


Andre Garzia wrote:
> Hello Eric and Damien,
> I'd also use sockets. This a related question, I've stopped using windows a
> long time ago and I don't know if some old tech I know still valid. Can we
> use DDE to exchange messages between windows applications or something like
> that? Some kind of AppleEvent for windows...
> 
> Cheers
> andre
> 
> On 10/11/07, GIRARD Damien <dam-pro.girard at laposte.net> wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> The method that I used is by using sockets, all my softwares work with
>> that. (and it work on any platform).
>>
>> Make your exe n°2 like a local server (accept connection from the
>> localhost only).
>> And the exe n°1 as client.
>>
>> The client connect to the server, and send/receive data to it.
>>
>> Regards from Nice ;)
>> Damien.
>>
>> Eric Chatonet a écrit :
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I would like to split a Rev Win project into two exes to avoid hangs I
>>> have at the moment in the GUI when reading/writing large amounts of
>>> data to a db (revDB locking). Actually I would have the GUI as exe n°1
>>> and all data handling in exe n°2.
>>> Unfortunately, I'm a newbie about open/write/read/close process (I
>>> don't want to use sockets: Win firewalls are a pain).
>>> On this point, Rev docs, let's say, are minimalist ;-)
>>> I have search the list archives but did not find anything that could
>>> get me started.
>>> Any tutorial, example stuff to understand basics about this would be
>>> warmly welcome :-)
>>> And may be not only for me...
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Best regards from Paris,
>>> Eric Chatonet.
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