[shell-coding] Re: Newbie question : Use Microsoft's DDE server

If you grab the upcoming release of core (www.coreshell.info), it will contain
my vb implementation of TDEWolfs code.

/asperon



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>Jaykul,
>
>my app is built with VB6 :o((.  Do you know af any VB implementations?
>
>Also, I 'd like to make sure that i understand what the code is doing. It
>seems that SHDOCVW.DLL is used to access native windows shell dde
>functionality. am i way off here?
>
>i appreciate your help
>thank you
>gd
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jaykul [mailto:Jaykul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 9:40 PM
>To: shell-coding@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [shell-coding] Re: Newbie question : Use Microsoft's DDE server
>
>
>> ncpa.cpl seems to be the only control panel applet that is affected by
>the new shell.
>
>I can ABSOLUTELY confirm that what you need is a DDE server ...
>However, thanks to tdewolf, I have a better solution ...
>
>Just run Microsoft's DDE server!
>NOTE: this source is Copyright Tim DeWolf and the GeoShell development
>team, 2003
>It is released ONLY under the GPL license, if you want to use it in a NON
>GPL shell, you MUST get permission from tdewolf. (#geodev on
>irc.freenode.net, or timdewolf [at] hotmail [dot] com )
>
>
>// Declares
>HMODULE hmodShDocVw;
>void (__stdcall *ShellDDEInit_shdocvw)(bool bInit) = 0;
>
>// Initialize DDE
>hmodShDocVw = LoadLibrary("SHDOCVW.DLL");
>if(hmodShDocVw) {
>   ShellDDEInit_shdocvw = (void (__stdcall *)(bool))
>GetProcAddress(hmodShDocVw, (LPSTR) 118);
>}
>if(ShellDDEInit_shdocvw) {
>   ShellDDEInit_shdocvw(true);
>} else {
>   MessageBox(NULL, "Unable to start shell DDE.  Can't find procedure",
>"Error", MB_ICONERROR);
>}
>
>
>// Shutdown DDE
>if(ShellDDEInit_shdocvw)
>{
>    ShellDDEInit_shdocvw(false);
>    FreeLibrary(hmodShDocVw);
>}
>
>
>--
>qotd: Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
>:: Jaykul
>
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>::Jaykul
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