A
Anders Pedersen
Hi,
I'm having a problem with localized versions of Windows and Excel, where
DDE-links cannot be established from the proprietary product I'm working on.
The linking works fine when the product is running on English versions of
Windows and Excel, but not in German and other non-English versions.
The error message given in German is:
"Die DDE-Kommunikation kann nicht gestartet werden mit EXCEL" - which I
assume equals the "Cannot establish DDE-connection to EXCEL".
I've tried ensuring that the filenames are 8.3-formatted and without any
localized characters, but I'm a bit at loss as to why this happens only in
localized versions?
Can the data be corrupted if the characters transferred are not standard
English - i.e. some Unicode problems?
Can the link become confused if the data transferred contains values that it
could interpret as cell values?
Can it be some security settings (such as the Netword DDE service) that is
messing with me?
Any ideas would be much appreciated, as this is not the most recently
documented technology I've worked with... A lot of what I find is for NT3.51.
Regards,
Anders
I'm having a problem with localized versions of Windows and Excel, where
DDE-links cannot be established from the proprietary product I'm working on.
The linking works fine when the product is running on English versions of
Windows and Excel, but not in German and other non-English versions.
The error message given in German is:
"Die DDE-Kommunikation kann nicht gestartet werden mit EXCEL" - which I
assume equals the "Cannot establish DDE-connection to EXCEL".
I've tried ensuring that the filenames are 8.3-formatted and without any
localized characters, but I'm a bit at loss as to why this happens only in
localized versions?
Can the data be corrupted if the characters transferred are not standard
English - i.e. some Unicode problems?
Can the link become confused if the data transferred contains values that it
could interpret as cell values?
Can it be some security settings (such as the Netword DDE service) that is
messing with me?
Any ideas would be much appreciated, as this is not the most recently
documented technology I've worked with... A lot of what I find is for NT3.51.
Regards,
Anders