Dan Kegel wrote:
Hey folks, I looked around on google for some discussion of this, but didn't find anything. What's the current thinking on making Wine able to handle the DDE messages that old windows 3.1 apps used to use to install program icons?
In Microsoft Windows 3.1, this was handled by Progman.exe. In win95 and later, I think it's handled by Explorer.exe.
Should I perhaps add a DDE server to the placeholder implementation of explorer I submitted last week?
For what it's worth, I looked around for an example of a DDE server written in C, and found one written in 1992: http://www.the-oasis.net/thereef/files/c/ddeml.zip (possibly written by bob.hartman@esoft.com, it's hard to tell). That should come in handy as example source if we decide to do this.
Anther possibly useful resource: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/rhaminisys/ddstudio.html
And here's something we might want to emulate for testing: http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/dde.1.asp
I'm vaguely tempted to write an xinetd for dde, so programs can accept dde messages on stdin and send responses via stdout :-) - Dan