On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Tim Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> You're sure the client wants binary, and not some ASCII encoding of the
> binary? That was a common strategy in the days when DDE was popular
> (that is, during the reign of the 80386).
>
> Your assessment is correct. The PyWin32 DDE support is string only. If
> you really need binary, then you will have to write a DLL helper. The
> ctypes module might help.
>
Thanks, guys.
I do have he original C code for the DDE server, so if I have to I can wrap
that. Here is where it creates the return value for the request.
hddedata = DdeCreateDataHandle( g_service.dwIdInst,
(LPBYTE)&status,
sizeof(
REMOTESTATUS ) + 1,
0,
hszItem,
CF_TEXT,
0 );
Where REMOTESTATUS is the data struct and hddedata is of type HDDEDATA.
CF_TEXT is the clipboard format. So it seems that what I need to do is
encode the data into clipboard format.
Dave Cook
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