intercept stack opening event in Windows

[Rodney Tamblyn]

I remember now that you can do this with the Revolution External v1, 
which implements a DDE client/server.

R.

On 19/12/2003, at 12:53 PM, Rodney Tamblyn wrote:

> How do you go about intercepting a document open event in Windows, 
> assuming you have a document type associated with a Revolution Windows 
> stand-alone application?
>
> On Mac you use an Appleevent handler to achieve this sort of thing.
>
> I'm interested in not just detecting a document that caused the 
> application to launch (e.g. user clicks on document which causes stand 
> alone application to launch and process file) - I believe you can 
> detect this by checking the $1 global parameter although haven't had 
> any experience doing this myself.  I'm also interest in detecting 
> subsequent document open events, e.g. if user clicks on additional 
> docs associated with the stand alone, how can I detect an intercept 
> these events?
>
> If there's no high level way of doing this I will just attempt to 
> detect documents opening by intercepting preopenstack handlers.
>
> ~ Rodney
>
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