Re: DDE communication: Forms4.5 and Excel on Win2000

We experienced the same problems when migrating from Win95 to WinNT a couple of years ago.
To get DDE working on a windows NT machine (or Win2000) upgrade to the latest Developer release for Forms 4.5. It's a bug. I believe this should be Developer 2000 release 1.6.1. Cheers,

Ron

"Aca Vasic" <acko_at_ni.ac.yu> wrote in message news:a8u2pd$elt$1_at_news.etf.bg.ac.yu...
> Hi,
> I'm experiencing problems with DDE communication between Forms4.5 and
Excel
> on Win2000
> I'm trying to start DDE communication with following PL/SQL code:
> ConvID := DDE.INITIATE('EXCEL','WorkSheet.xls'); -- ConvID is
PLS_INTEGER
> datatype
> Then, I use DDE.POKE to set some values in Excel sheet.
> This code (and form) works fine, without any problems on Win95/Win98, but
> seems it doesn't work on Win2000 (I get exception DDE.DDE_INIT_FAILED or
> DDE.DMLERR_NO_CONV_ESTABLISHED - anyway, I can't start DDE communication)
> I assume that Win2000 is DDE capable
> Can someone help please?
> Thanks in advance
> Aca Vasic
>
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 09 2002 - 04:58:38 CDT