--- In [email protected], "entropyreduction"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "Sheri" <sherip99@> wrote:
> > > All DDERequest and DDEPoke commands can be duplicated with the
> > > DDEExecute command (with the exception of the LastResult command
> > > which must be passed by the DDERequest command).
> > >
> > > If you use DDEExecute to send a Request to ECCO, the information
> > > from that request can be retrieved by sending a LastResult
> > > DDERequest.
> > >
> > > This change was made to work around a Microsoft Windows
> > > limitation to the DDERequest command. That command is limited to
> > > sending 256 bytes or less of data to the server application
> > > (ECCO).
> > >
> > > You should now be able to transfer up to 32K of information to
> > > and from ECCO.
>
> > Haven't figured out how to test that yet. Does it sound like
> > something that would work with the plugin?
>
> I'll check code and docs over the weekend, but should work. PP is
> just the messenger boy, so if you do a dde.request("LastResult")
> after a dde.execute(..), you should get something.
>
Above apparently doesn't mean I can't get a long string using a DDE
request to Ecco -- just successfully retrieved one with a length over
29K. I guess the issue must be how to set one. So far I've only tried
retrieving info. Retrieving works both with
string=dde.request(..various..) and dde.execute(..various..) followed
by string=dde.request("GetLastResult").
Regards,
Sheri
