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nead some advice for using DDE icons

Hello everyone,
 
1°)I am using DDE in my programm. I need to get and send many information to the instrument I am communicationg with. I would like to know if have to use the DDE start,check, or poke icons for each piece of info I want to get? Because that takes a lot of space in my prorgam. Is there any other way?
 
2°) I am also looking for some DDE application notes. Don't seem to able to find any on the NI web site...any idea?
 
Any help would be great,
 
regards,
 
David
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Actually, the best place for info on the DDE VIs is Microsoft's website. The functions within LV are apparently very simple wrappers around the Windows function calls so you follow the basic procedural flow in MS's docs and it should work.

Typically you have to open a session specifying a "service" and "topic", you can then "request" (read) or "poke" (write) "items".

And yes, you typically have to read or write one value at a time. It all depends on the "items" that the DDE service you're accessing implements.

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Hi Mike,

Thanks for ur help!

I'll try and find some info on the microsoft web site.

regards,

David
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