Introduction to DDE
The purpose of this section is to focus on the basic concepts of DDE by building an application that has a DDE server part and DDE client part in the same window. These two parts will exchange string data.
When you are finished you will have a window that looks like the following:
Whenever possible, use VA Smalltalk connections or scripts to communicate between objects. Because this type of communication occurs completely within the VA Smalltalk environment, it will be more efficient than using DDE. Use DDE in situations where using connections or scripts is impractical.
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