Re: [Libreoffice] DDEInitiate bug

On 13 July 2011 19:57, Luuk <luuk34@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13-07-2011 16:54, Knut Olav Bøhmer wrote:
> > http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118283 vs.
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39194
> >
> > Now, fight! :D
> >
> >
> > 2011/7/13 Knut Olav Bøhmer <bohmer@gmail.com>:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I posted a bug-report at OpenOffice.org
> > > http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118283
> > >
> > > Do I need to create the bug-report at libreoffice as well? The bug is
> > > also there.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Knut Olav Bøhmer
>
> i thought DDE was dead?

Looks to me that it is used quite much in LibreOffice. I might be wrong.
It is used in an applications MS Office is communicating with. The
BASIC macros are ported to LibreOffice. Now we got to make it run
smooth. Users don't like waiting for 20 seconds.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Data_Exchange
> "NetDDE was still included with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP
> Service Pack 2, although it was disabled by default. It has been removed
> entirely in Windows Vista.[3] However, this will not prevent existing
> versions of NetDDE from being installed and functioning on later
> versions of Windows."

Well, this is only DDEML. And DDEML will never be removed from
windows. It's part of it's core, as far as I know.

-- 
Knut Olav Bøhmer