Need to Bridge from Dolphin to DDE?

Hi,

I think I need to use DDE with Dolphin.
Has anyone wrappered the DDEML.DLL with dolphin?
DDEML = Dynamic Data Exchange Management Library
Not sure if this is the path I want to take, so I was wondering if anyone
else has blazed this trail...

Or does anyone know of a simpler way to get data to and from the rest of the
DDE world?  (excel, real time data feeds etc.)

Ideally, I would allow an entry field where the end user can type in the
appropriate DDE statement to talk to their data service

Thanks,
Steve Geringer

P.S. I already do the trick of generating a .csv file and then doing an
open...I need more than that for this problem.

Steve,

> I think I need to use DDE with Dolphin.
> Has anyone wrappered the DDEML.DLL with dolphin?
> DDEML = Dynamic Data Exchange Management Library
> Not sure if this is the path I want to take, so I was wondering if anyone
> else has blazed this trail...
>
> Or does anyone know of a simpler way to get data to and from the rest of
the
> DDE world?  (excel, real time data feeds etc.)
>
> Ideally, I would allow an entry field where the end user can type in the
> appropriate DDE statement to talk to their data service

The saying power of DDE is surprising.  I once used it between 16 and 32 bit
apps, but ended up replacing it with COM once Dolphin became an option.  You
should be able to interact with Excel by Automation.  IIRC, OA recommends
generating interfaces; I respectfully disagree only because the Office
Automation interfaces are, well, not very elegant.  With other systems, the
generated methods are helpful, but with Office, it looks like one big badly
designed blur.  My Word package illustrates an alternate approach you might
take.

Speaking of generating interfaces though, you might wrap the DDEML headers
in IDL, whack it with MIDL to get a type library, and then generate
interfaces from that.  See the Wiki for instructions.

Have a good one,

Bill

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