[GD-Windows] DDE Event not showing up

[Jon W. <hp...@mi...>]

This has puzzled me and some other fellows for a while; I hope some of you
smart people know the answer!

In an app we're working on, a regular Windows app is started from a web page
by registering a MIME type to IE, which starts the app, and having the
browser send DDE data to the application.

However, sometimes when the app gets started from the link, it takes about
30-60 seconds until the DDE data arrives. However, if I click the window,
the data will arrive immediately. This is a major drag, as the application
will just sit idle and dull until the data arrives.

I'd prefer to stay with DDE because it handles the case of clicking a link
while the app is already open. However, if you can think of some other way
of accomplishing something similar, including some kind of gross hack,
that'd be swell too, as this is only an in-house tool kind of thing.

Cheers,

				/ h+