DDE - Dynamic Data Exchange

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Fri Nov 15 13:56:01 EST 2002


Recently, "Roger Kingston (OmniBus - Stanford)"  wrote:

> In a past life, I used to integrate Toolbook (Asymetrix) applications with
> Winword and EXCEL using DDE.  This allowed me to pass data to and from MS
> documents and then remotely run macros in MS to format, chart or mail-merge,
> etc.  This was extremely powerful and pretty reliable.
> 
> Now I am an unrepentful RR convert (no going back!) can anyone suggest whether
> or not this, or something like it, can be achieved with RR?

RR can do DDE using the old Externals Collection available on the RunRev
site, but my understanding is that DDE is to be phased out as of WindowsXP.
Maybe someone more knowledgeable about MS/Windows can elaborate.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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