Re: DDE

Hi Jack

Thank you for thereply. I came to the same conclusion and stop looking at DDE. As you said compatibility will be a problem everytime Excel is updated.

KInd regards.

Frans


--- In [email protected], John Bond <jb886@...> wrote:
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> Hi Frans,
> I do not want to disappoint you, but I have spend a massive amount of hours in the past in an attempt to try to make it work.. and failed.
> In the end I resorted to RTF, HTML, CVS and an unfinished project to write native XLS files. The latter was working quite neatly, but as office versions went to 2003, 2007and 2010 versions, I stopped bothering as sooner or later I will loose compatibilitiy.
> My suggestion: don't use DDE. Use HTML or CVS instead. It has its limitations, but it will save you from beating up your computer and banging your head against the wall.
> Regards,
> Jack
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> --- On Fri, 1/7/11, Marianne <marianne976@...> wrote:
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> From: Marianne <marianne976@...>
> Subject: [gui4cli] DDE
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Friday, 1 July, 2011, 6:32 PM
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> I want to use the DDuse and DDexc in an application.
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> In the tutorials and the postings on this forum there are no in depth examples of using the events. (I know that Dimitris is not a "fan" of these functions)
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> Is there a place that you know of where I can get the keywords. In the manual the SELECT statement are used and it is working fine. The problem is when I for example want to write something to a cell, copy, delete etc. I have tried  everything namely PUT, LET. Cell(1,1).value,Cell(Rc1C1) and many more and it is not working.
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