PLEASE HELP!!! Two questions: 1. DDE? 2. Context menus in Explorer?

[danielkw]

Hello there proggers!

I have two questions for you all!
1. Is there anyone who knows how to implement some kind of DDE functions in my program. The purpose is that I want to create some plugins to my program and I need to determine when the mainprogram raises an event. Like cathing the windows messages...

2. I want to add a menuitem to the menu that appears when you rightclick on a folder in Explorer. I know how to add a menuitem how to shell a prog when you click it. But I wonder if there is an ability to create sub menus to that menu like the ICQ menu (Send to user > All users online).

Thanx!

[nvileka]

Ans 2 the 2nd ?
Here is what u can do...
Go to C:\winnt\profiles\userid\SENDTO (in Windows NT)
Create a Folder there say "TEST"
In that folder put say shortcuts to Notepad.exe, wordpad.exe etc.

C if it works..I just tried

[kmchong]

Some hint in using VB DDE

I have use DDE between 2 programs start from VB3. There is one thing you need to be awared: Data Loss

In VB DDE, once the DDE content have arrived, VB automatically send the acknowledgement to the sender's program. So the sender program may send another data immediately, which will overlay the receiver's data. This may or may not happen, depends on how fast these two programs are running. Compared to C++, there is no such problem since the acknowledgement has to be sent by program codes, not automatically.

For your purpose, I am sure you have interest in the above experience.