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Preface

1.  Introducing the ToolTalk Service

2.  An Overview of the ToolTalk Service

3.  Message Patterns

4.  Setting Up and Maintaining the ToolTalk Processes

5.  Maintaining Application Information

6.  Maintaining Files and Objects Referenced in ToolTalk Messages

7.  Participating in ToolTalk Sessions

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

Initialization

ToolTalk procids and sessions

ToolTalk storage

Common Problems

8.  Sending Messages

9.  Dynamic Message Patterns

10.  Static Message Patterns

11.  Receiving Messages

12.  Objects

13.  Managing Information Storage

14.  Handling Errors

A.  Migrating from the Classing Engine to the ToolTalk Types Database

B.  A Simple Demonstration of How the ToolTalk Service Works

C.  The ToolTalk Standard Message Sets

D.  Frequently Asked Questions

Glossary

Index

Chapter 7

Participating in ToolTalk Sessions

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.