Dynamic copy/paste using DDE with Python on Windows
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Tue Oct 15 20:14:29 EDT 2002
Eric Brunel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We'd like to add to a Windows application the possibility to make dynamic
> copy/paste: the user selects something in the application, pastes it
> elsewhere (e.g. Word...), and whenever the source is modified, the changes
> are automatically forwarded to the copy.
>
> AFAIK, the way to do that on Windows is DDE. But I can't find anywhere a
> simple sample code showing how to do that.
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...
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...
-Peter
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