Hi there

I have a small test application that works perfectly well when you set
DDEService, DDETopic and DDEItems during design time. I can't seem to set
these parameters during runtime. In the OnFormCreate Event I am able to
establish a link with the SetLink method, which then opens the Server
application -

if not DDEClientConv1.SetLink('DDEServer','DDEServerConv1') then
    raise Exception.Create ('Could not link to DDE server.');

However, straight after that the following code is just ignored. The DDEItem
remains unset.

DDEClientItem1.DDEItem:= 'DDEServerItem1';
DDEClientItem2.DDEItem := 'DDEServerItem2';
DDEClientItem3.DDEItem := 'DDEServerItem3';

Could you please cast some light on the situation.

Thanks

Alex

Hate to tell you this, DDE in Delphi 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 is broken.  I do not
know about 5.0.

I use a component called Django, it works well but costs money.

-John_Mer...@Brown.EDU

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