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

You're lucky; I still have this e-mail from 1999;

There is a bug in Oracle Developer 2000 1.3.2 for NT (Not Win95). For DDE to work on Windows NT please upgrade your Forms 4.5 version to Developer 2000 release 1.6.1.

We did a complete reinstall of the software but a patch should be available on Oracle Metalink: http://metalink.oracle.com I presume you have an Oracle license which enables you to request a Developer 2000 release 1.6.1 CD or a patch from Oracle. Good luck,

Ron

"Aca Vasic" <acko_at_ni.ac.yu> wrote in message news:a8uj9l$lhr$1_at_news.etf.bg.ac.yu...
> Thanks, but where can I find this upgrade? Is that a patch, or complete
> instalation?
>
> "Smiley" <anoniemke888_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:a8udqo$nvo$1_at_news.hccnet.nl...
> > We experienced the same problems when migrating from Win95 to WinNT a
> couple
> > of years ago.
> > To get DDE working on a windows NT machine (or Win2000) upgrade to the
> > latest Developer release for Forms 4.5. It's a bug.
> > I believe this should be Developer 2000 release 1.6.1.
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ron
> >
> > "Aca Vasic" <acko_at_ni.ac.yu> wrote in message
> > news:a8u2pd$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 - 08:46:19 CDT