I've got an image viewing Metacard program which can handle events received from a web
browser.
On the Mac I have configured my program as a helper application in the Internet
Control Panel (Advanced tab, Helper Apps), allowing the URL type emv to be associated
with my program.
In the browser if the user clicks on a link starting emv://<url> this is passed to my
Metacard application as an appleevent.
Now I want to try and do the achieve thing under Windows, namely: associate the url
type emv with my application. I see that there is a URL file type (see: explorer
window ->view menu ->Folder Options:File Types tab) eg "URL:File Transfer Protocol".
There must be more to it than this though (where is the actual protocol prefix
specified?).
I have made a MC application using the MC External, configured to act as a DDE Server
(ie able to receive DDE events) but haven't yet been able to get the web browser to
talk to it.
Related question: when I make a stand-alone application which is acting as a DDE
server, does the server name becomes the name of the application (not EXT?). Is there
any way of getting a list of all available DDE servers on the computer?
If anyone has had any success trying to do this sort of thing or can point me towards
any relevant documentation or instructions I would appreciate it.
Rodney
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