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$dde(N) #24665 17/05/03 08:50 AM
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 730 S ScatMan OP Hoopy frood
OP ScatMan Hoopy frood S Joined: May 2003 Posts: 730	i know that $dde is exist but i want that if one parameter is spcified and it's a number so it will return the Nth dde server so i can know the dde servers on my computer 0 - total dde servers

Re: $dde(N) #24666 17/05/03 05:11 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,809 C codemastr Hoopy frood
codemastr Hoopy frood C Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,809	I'm not too familiar with DDE programming, but I don't believe such a feature can exist. I don't think Windows gives applications a list of the running DDE servers. I quickly looked through the DDE function list, and I didn't see anything that would do this.

Re: $dde(N) #24667 18/05/03 11:04 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 44 Liverpool, Merseyside, UK P ppslim Ameglian cow
ppslim Ameglian cow P Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 44 Liverpool, Merseyside, UK	I think it can. I don't know the specifics, but the DDE package for Tcl on windows, provides a method of obtaining the currently running DDE servers. I started using Tcl to make external mIRC interfacing aplications, but gave up when I found that Tcl for windows is crash prone like most other ports using cygwin. However, at the time, I was able to run 15 copies of mIRC. Each one called a external Tcl application, to find out what DDE name it should use. Tcl would look at the currebntly looking servers, and pick a name and return it. From then on, Tcl could mass address a list of mIRC servers. The Tcl isn't needed anymore, seeing as mIRC now has native multi-server support. Suck it, lick it, milk it then put it away.

Re: $dde(N) #24668 19/05/03 07:12 AM
Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 309 Adelaide, Australia C CloCkWeRX Fjord artisan
CloCkWeRX Fjord artisan C Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 309 Adelaide, Australia	I saw a pretty old application that did it on MSDN (it was 16 bit)... lemmie find the link I htink this is it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/techart/msdn_rawdde.htm Ok, well its not. mIRC now allows you to play with SendMessage, or a DLL coder could prolly whip somehting up from the similar ARTICLES found there... Me? I'm too lazy to learn VC++ 6 well enough http://www.ahsonline.com.au/dod/FOAF.rdf

Re: $dde(N) #24669 21/05/03 05:15 AM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 154 B BoredNL Vogon poet
BoredNL Vogon poet B Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 154	As a simple workaround, wouldn't it be possible to just make any mIRC DDE server add itself to a list that's stored somewhere in a person's registry? then when you run $dde(0), it just reads the info from the registry and returns the appropriate value. It could even use a simple .ini file that's temporarily stored in 'c:\temp\'. This file would be deleted when the last mIRC DDE server is shut down. - Wherever you go there you are.[color:lightgreen]

Re: $dde(N) #24670 22/05/03 10:34 AM
Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,812 Raccoon Hoopy frood
Raccoon Hoopy frood Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,812	Could be useful to detect rogue instances of mIRC running, eg. pre-packaged scripts or hidden trojan copies. This would have been much more useful before multi-server support was added. - Raccoon Well. At least I won lunch. Good philosophy, see good in bad, I like!

Re: $dde(N) #24671 24/05/03 03:20 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 699 Sunshine, Oz. N Nimue Fjord artisan
Nimue Fjord artisan N Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 699 Sunshine, Oz.	Maybe the suggestion was in order to find other, unknown DDE servers, not only other copies of mIRC.

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