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Re: How to send message to another application

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In message <584141735fNews03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>
          Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:

> On 12 Feb in article <129a344158.Alan.Adams@ArmX6.adamshome.org.uk>,
>    Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> wrote:
>> Hi

>> i'm trying to work around a limitation of Pipedream.

>> Briefly I want to create a csv file and have Pipedream open it
>> automatically.

>> If I double-click the file when Pipedream isn't running, it works.
>> If I double-click when Pipedream is running, the banner appears
>> again, then nothing more happens. I think Pipedreasm is trying to
>> open a second copy of itself, and quitting when it discovers this.

>> Instead I want my application to ensure PipeDream is running, then
>> use DataSava and DataLoad messages to simulate draging a file to
>> its iconbar icon. This requires me, as far as I can see from the
>> manuals, to know the icon number and window handle. The window
>> handle should be -2 I believe, but how do I find the icon number.

>> I can find the task handle using Task_EnumerateTasks looking for
>> the name.

>> The message protocol has an option to send the message to the task
>> handle. Do I need the icon number in this case? If not, what do I
>> put in message block fields 20 amnd 24 (and indeed 28 and 32 as
>> well)?

> Before you start on a program to bypass a 'limitation' (or even bug)
> or Pipedream, have you asked on the pipedream mailing list about this?

Is that the same list as Fireworkz, on google groups? If so, I've applied 
to join it so I can ask a question, but haven't yet been accepted. As my 
copy of Fireworkz is unregistererd, bundled with the ARMX6, it may be they 
won't accept me.

> Stuart is usually around, and if it is a bug may fix it, or confirm
> it is a limitation.



-- 
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan@adamshome.org.uk
http://www.nckc.org.uk/

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How to send message to another application Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-02-12 15:41 +0000
  Re: How to send message to another application Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-02-12 18:01 +0000
    Re: How to send message to another application Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-02-12 21:35 +0000
      Re: How to send message to another application Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-02-12 23:19 +0000
        Re: How to send message to another application Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-02-13 11:03 +0000
          Re: How to send message to another application Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-02-13 21:06 +0000
        Re: How to send message to another application Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-02-13 15:04 +0000
          Re: How to send message to another application Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-02-13 17:45 +0000
            Re: How to send message to another application Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-02-13 18:40 +0000
              Re: How to send message to another application Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-02-13 23:26 +0000
                Re: How to send message to another application Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-02-14 09:30 +0000
                Re: How to send message to another application Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-02-14 15:41 +0000
                Re: How to send message to another application Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-02-14 16:56 +0000
  Re: How to send message to another application druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-02-12 20:08 +0000
  Re: How to send message to another application Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-02-13 09:00 +0000

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