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

[Quoted] 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 - 13:32:12 CEST