Server Information
A DDE server application can communicate with one or more DDE clients.
If you will be providing information to multiple applications, create a server application.
A DDE server application uses DDE server parts to broadcast data to applications that have registered an interest in the data the server application can provide.
Four pieces of information are needed to identify each data item to be exchanged: server name, topic, item, and format.
In creating settings for the DDE server, a server attribute will be created for each topic, item, and format combination.
When a DDE server provides data, the format of the data must match the format specified in the topic_item_format attribute. When choosing a format, here are some hints:
•When in doubt, use String. It is by far the most common format used in DDE communications.
•Usually, connections from text parts use String.
•Commercial applications usually use String.
•If both client and server are VA Smalltalk applications, the Smalltalk object format can be used.
Last modified date: 01/29/2015