Dynamic copy/paste using DDE with Python on Windows

[Anders M Eriksson]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:14:29 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com>
wrote:

>I thought DDE was *way* deprecated by now, and long since replaced
>by OLE, then OLE2 or something, then COM, then ActiveX, and probably
>by now something else...
>

Since DDE is based on Windows Messages and Windows is really using
Messages I don't think it will be deprecated any time in the
foreseeable future!

>Also, as far as I recall DDE was always broken in a number of,
>uh, "interesting" ways and probably not worth your time trying
>to get it working.  Maybe someone else will point out that
>I'm wrong about that...
>
I can't recall anything that has been broken!?  Maybe the broken part
has been the Python implementation?


For anyone that is interested in DDE, what it is, why you should use
it, DDE vs COM, ... This FAQ has all the answers!
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/rhaminisys/ddeinfo.html

// Anders

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