Opens a DDE conversation with a DDE server application.
DDE.INITIATE (Service, Topic)
Parameter |
Type |
Description |
---|---|---|
Service |
VARCHAR2 |
DDE Server application's DDE service code |
Topic |
VARCHAR2 |
Topic name for the conversation |
The values of Service and Topic depend on the values supported by a particular DDE server application. Service is usually the name of the DDE server application program. For applications that operate on file-based documents, Topic is usually the document filename; in addition, the System topic is usually supported by each service.
Returns PLS_INTEGER
DECLARE
ConvID PLS_INTEGER;
BEGIN
/* Open a DDE conversation with Microsoft Excel for Windows
on topic abc.xls. */
ConvID := DDE.Initiate('EXCEL', 'c:/abc.xls');
END;