Dde

[Nark]

Hi guys,

I'm coding JSPs on Vignette and want to use 1st Page as an external editor.

I've noticed that 1st Page can do DDE, but can't find any information on it.
The only mention is in the features list where it says:
External browser support (DDE)

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

Nark.

[cbkihong]

DDE (dynamic data exchange) is archaic now (at least I haven't heard or seen this term for more than 5 years already -- I can only find it in my antique MS Visual Basic 3.0 programmer's guide > 10 years ago!).

I think, say, to fire up an external browser window to display an HTML page in it there is no need for any kind of DDE as the program can just invoke the browser via ShellExecute() or the like Windows API calls and pass the path to page as a parameter. I don't see the need of any DDE in there, and this works for all browsers accepting command-line parameters.

The way to do DDE is application-specific. At least it's not the way we as users can decide on, it's the kind of thing that only developers would ever have to think about. I also doubt if any recent programs will ever use DDE as it has been flagged by MS as something that might be deprecated in future versions of Windows (at the time the doc was published, it was Windows 3.1!!)

[Nark]

Integration with Vignette isn't quite so simple since the code is store in a database.
To edit a file you would have to check it out of Vignette, it'll save it on the filesystem termporarily, then open the editor with the file.
Then when you save or close the file, Vignette has to be told about it. That's where the trouble starts.

I figured it might be worth a try since I hate the Vignette IDE....