Hi Guys,

I need some help setting up DDE with a third party application. The info on the application can be found here http://www.amibroker.com/dde.html

The software amibroker shows stock market charts and says that data sent thru DDE will be recognised.

CONFIGURING DDE PLUGIN TO WORK WITH YOUR VENDOR

Various data vendors come use different DDE connection strings, here a few typical exampels will be shown.

Amibroker DDE Setup says :

Most documentation of DDE uses Excel DDE syntax which looks as follows:

=SERVER|TOPIC!ITEM

Server is a name of the DDE server such as WINROS, IQLINK, REUTER, CQGPC, MT, MTLink, etc.
Topic is the topic of DDE conversation. Depending on Data source
topic may be just the ticker symbol (like in IQFeed), or the field name (like in winros).
Item is the item of DDE conversation. Depending on data source it can be field name (like in IQFeed) or ticker symbol (like in Winros).

So DDE connection string in two most common standards look as follows:

=WINROS|LAST!MSFT

=IQLINK|MSFT!LAST


When I made an application in VB 6, whereby the form was selected as source. And I placed few text boxes. So -

-My program name is server name
-My forum is Topic
-My text box is item

Right ??

I am trying to connect to the program but have been unsuccessful so far.

My os is Win 7. If anyone can kinda advice or point out what I am doing wrong it would be great.

Thanks a lot,

Cheers,
GR