Re: win32 DDE/Double click

This is a LispWorks problem as I ran into it recently.  Check with 
Xanalys for a private patch that will fix the problem.

As a workaround, deliver your application without a splash screen.

   - Gary Palter
     Principal Software Engineer
     Clozure Associates
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At 12:02 AM +0200 11/5/04, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote:
>I am trying to get my windows app (exe) open its .foo files from
>explorer.  I used the example provided, and set up a DDE server.  This
>works fine if the program is running -- it gets the filename.  If it
>is not running, the shell falls back to running "myexe.exe %1" which
>also runs OK.  But in the second case I get the "Cannot find the file
>"filename.foo" (or one of its components)..."  dialog along with the
>working program with the proper file in it.
>
>A search at MSDN didn't tell me when exactly this message pops up, but
>It told me enough for me to assume that the initial DDE connect fails,
>the shell runs the program, the second DDE connect also fails
>triggering the message.  I start the DDE server from an
>(excute-with-context ...) form within the context of  main capi interface
>as early in the code as possible. 
>
>Does this sound familiar to anyone?  I'll try to isolate this some
>more and maybe work around it by turning off DDE from the shell and
>just running the program which then would check for a second instance
>and do teh right DDE thing.  But I wanted to check first, if there was
>a simple thing I was missing.  (The code is almost identical to the
>example, LWpro 4.3.7).
>
>thanks,
>
>BM