What are use of DDE package in D2K

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Ram Pratap Singh

  • Nov 24th, 2006
 

DDE :  Dynamic Data Exchange

this package is used for transfer/ receive data from/to excel/winword application

you can get all examples in D2K/ Forms Help tab

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Oracle Forms for Microsoft Windows supports Dynamic Data Exchange(DDE), a mechanism by which applications can communicate and exchange data. DDE client support is a procedural extension to Oracle Forms for Microsoft Windows. A PL/SQL package for DDE support provides application developers with an Application Programming Interface(API) for accessing DDE functionality from within PL/SQL procedures and triggers. 


The DDE functions enable Oracle Forms, a DDE client application, to communicate with DDE server applications in the following ways

> by importing data 
> by exporting data
> by executing commands against the DDE server

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Imran Baig
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