1. Introducing the ToolTalk Service
2. An Overview of the ToolTalk Service
4. Setting Up and Maintaining the ToolTalk Processes
5. Maintaining Application Information
6. Maintaining Files and Objects Referenced in ToolTalk Messages
Including the ToolTalk API Header File
Registering with the ToolTalk Service
Registering in the Initial Session
Registering in a Specified Session
Registering in Multiple Sessions
Setting Up to Receive Messages
Sending and Receiving Messages in the Same Process
Sending and Receiving Messages in a Networked Environment
Unregistering from the ToolTalk Service
Using ToolTalk in a Multi-Threaded Environment
13. Managing Information Storage
A. Migrating from the Classing Engine to the ToolTalk Types Database
B. A Simple Demonstration of How the ToolTalk Service Works
This chapter provides instructions on how to participate in a ToolTalk session. It also shows you how to manage storage of values passed in from the ToolTalk service and how to handle errors that the ToolTalk service returns.
To use the ToolTalk service, your application calls ToolTalk functions from the ToolTalk API library. To modify your application to use the ToolTalk service, you must first include the ToolTalk API header file in your program. After you have initialized the ToolTalk service and joined a session, you can join files and additional user sessions. When your process is ready to quit, you unregister your message patterns and leave your ToolTalk session.