The property
FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_WRITE
looks like a possibility, as if structured data has just been written to a
file this event should be triggered. The only gotcha seems to be that the
better the caching is the less likely the event will fire - according to the
help. Tricky.
John
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Another way, and one use for easily transmitting structure between apps.
i.e. no mucking around with ports etc. Is based around the "PostBox" (or is
it mailbox forget now) method.
I use Zylappcommunicator. Here is what the document says HTH,
Jeremy
ZylAppCommunicator 1.0
ZylAppCommunicator is
John,
Hi. What you want to use is WinAPI: FindFirstChangeNotification,
FindNextChangeNotification and FindCloseChangeNotification in program B.
Essentially, A writes to a file, and renames it. This causes the handle
returned by FindFirstChangeNotification to be signaled. You can test for
t
My preferred answer, based on what you have told us, is in the question:
Use an "Event".
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682396(VS.85).aspx
One application creates the event, the other obtains a handle to the same
named event (whichever one starts first Creates it, the other O
Which way would you favour to do the following ?
I have two Delphi programs (A and B) that I will pass data from A to B - I will
probably use a file to put the data in because its quite structured. B will
sleep on a timer loop until this something is triggered.
What I want to do is send a si
words[0]+' '+words[22]+' '+words[26]+' '+words[32]+' '+words[28]+'
'+words[-1]
Steve
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From: John Bird [mailto:johnkb...@paradise.net.nz]
Sent: Tuesday, 17 August 2010 3:55 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] MSSQL ID field binary(8)
I think I have
