1) I would like to send a DDE from another program to mIRC. Actualy I'm already doing it, but the problem is that mIRC maximize itself everytime it gets the DDE command.
Is there any way to prevent it from maximizing (Make it catch the DDE silently)?

2) How to I use SendMessage()? (Lets say I wanna use it from internet explorer with a link, or by editing the registry that a link will send a SendMessage() to mIRC, just like it can be done with DDE, how can I do it?)

3) Will SendMessage() be helpfull to prevent the maximizing problem?

::SendMessage() is just a function in any language under WIN32 API to send windows messages into the message loop

I have no experience with this but it shouldn't effect the state of any window as far as I have tested it in applications I wrote myself...

thanks