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From: rzi@philpav.tds.philips.se (Roman Zielinski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Word-for-windows to C interface? DDE?
Message-ID: <502@philpav.tds.philips.se>
Date: 8 Nov 90 09:11:11 GMT
Organization: Philips TDS, Stockholm, Sweden
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I'm working for a simple tool to keep track on official documents in a 
LAN-environment. I use the macro/basic language in word for windows
to create user interfaces, but I got a little stocked in 
communication with external programs. As I understood, the way
to communicate with other programs is to use the directive 
		shell program arg1 ..... argN

give back some strings? (Of cause I can always read a file, but it seems
to be too dirty/complicated).


I saw also some DDE-commands (DDEExecute, DDEInitiate, DDEPoke, DDERequest,
DDETerminate) but all examples in the W4W Technical reference manual show
communication with Execel....

So the questions are:

1.	It is possible to simply add new directives to the basic?
	Can they be written in C? Need for special development environment?

2.	Is DDEPoke/DDERequest$ macros *the* solution for communication with
	other programs? How do I write programs supporting DDE (Dynamic 
	DataExchange)?

3.	Can I read MSDOS shell variables (SET name=value) from W4W-macros?


Tanks for any help,
Roman

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