DDE Help

I've been messing around with DDE and various internet browsers.

Most accept "WWW_EXIT" to close them down but FireFox does not. Does anyone know the DDE command to close down FireFox?

I've searched Google but personally had no luck in finding the right command. I'm probably missing something stupid :)

dde?

Transferring data between applications:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/dataexchange/dynamicdataexchange/aboutdynamicdataexchange.asp

Thanks for the link Tom, but it holds no help I'm afraid.

i remember playing with this a looooong ways back... to transfer data between spreadsheets and vb apps... but not to control a browser...

and, can't even remember how i did that... sorry...

--Mike

After extensive searching I can only find other people who can't get it to work with firefox either =/

probably because DDE was abandoned a long time ago

Perhaps, but as browsers still support it then its a shame they all don't follow a standard or actually work properly.

DDE works ok on all every browsers I've tested for retrieving its current URL. Except of course IE works differently when it comes to figuring which window you're actually in.

I've decided to work it a different way using 'Handles' of windows and its components. It seems more bullet proof way of doing things but more work involved. Ah well, the easiest way isn't always the best.

i also used to do some coding for an app which was deployed over the net, and hosted in ie... there is an api for IE... although, if i remember corrcectly, the interface is COM...

if that is the case, i also remember seeing a COM wrapper written up by one of the members here... don't ask me where to find it, but it should be around here...

as far as Firefox... sorry, i don't know the first thing about it...

good luck...

--Mike