Category: Accessing Microsoft Tools Via DDE Services

Zim provides DDE services for applications through the function $DDEFunction. These DDE services include the ability to send data to another application, retrieve data from another application, and pass commands to another application. While you can write your own implementation of $DDEFunction, Zim provides a standard implementation in the form of a Dynamic Link Library…
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The return value of $DDEFunction is one of the following. A negative result indicates failure. Value Description 0 DDE service completed successfully. -1001 Bad DDE service indicator type; p2 is not of type longint or int. -1002 Unknown DDE service indicator value; p2 not 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. -1003 Attempt to CONNECT failed.…
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