OVERVIEW
The DDE Plugin enables communication between a Servoy Solution and any local or remote Windows DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) Server .
Dynamic data exchange (DDE) is a feature of Microsoft Windows®.
DDE provides a protocol through which applications can exchange data of all sorts.
With this version of the Plugin you can set up read and write , from and to any DDE Server enabled (MS Windows) applications like:
- MS Excel®
- MS Word®
- MS Access®
- MetaTrader4®
BENEFITS
- To interact direct with open applications to read data.
- To interact direct with open applications to write data.
In fact whenever a user needs to interact with open Windows applications the DDE Plugin will be a great help.
COMPATIBILITY
Smart client | Headless client | Web client | Mobile client | NG client | |||||
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8.0+ | 1.6+ | – | * | * | |||||
7.0+ | 1.6+ | – | n/a | * | * | ||||
6.1+ | 1.6+ | n/a | n/a | * | * |
* Only applies when used as ‘client to Windows® server’
DOCUMENTATION
We published our API Specifications for the DDE Plug-in as a future and current reference.
After downloading the DDE Plug-in using our Components Manager a sample solution {servoy_root}/solutions/it2be-examples/it2be-dde.servoy is installed.
You can import the sample solution into Servoy Developer and you will have some (basic) code examples of how to use the DDE Plug-in.
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