On Tue, 26 Oct 99 16:34:01 -0700 Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >You can control another MetaCard app on Windows with DDE > > I was hoping to do this with FileMaker Pro. How is this done? > It seems that FileMaker Pro can act as a DDE client, which means you can send DDE messages to MetaCard, but filemaker can't receive messages back. On Mac it seems you can use AppleScript to control FileMaker from MetaCard. DDE works like AppleEvents, you specify a server and topic. My external registers itself as DDE server "EXT" and accepts any topic passing the topic and command as a message for scripts to process. If you're interested in finding out more download the external collection from the Cross Worlds site and check out these links: http://www.filemaker.com/support/osscriptlang.html http://192.35.50.21/ti/FMPro?-db=ti.fp5&-format=detail.html&-lay=list&pro duct=FileMaker&article=dde&-max=10&-recid=37589&-token.0=dde&-find= http://192.35.50.21/ti/FMPro?-db=ti.fp5&-format=detail.html&-lay=list&pro duct=FileMaker&article=dde&-max=10&-recid=37590&-token.0=dde&-find=
