Microsoft KB Archive/71225

INF: Using the SDK CLIENT Sample with Commercial Applications ID Number: Q71225

3.00 MS-DOS

Summary:

When the Client application included with the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) version 3.00 is used with Word for Windows or with Excel, the System topic is available but no documents. This problem is caused by the limit that the Client application has placed on the length of the strings used in DDE conversations.

More information:

The length of the strings the Client and Server sample applications use is limited to 8 characters.

To correct this limitation, it is necessary to modify CLIENT.H and SERVER.H. The symbolic constants listed below must be #defined to have values larger than 8; 14 was chosen as an example. After modifying these variables the applications must be rebuilt.


 * 1) define APP_MAX_SIZE 14 #define TOPIC_MAX_SIZE 14 #define ITEM_MAX_SIZE 14 #define VALUE_MAX_SIZE 14 #define EXECUTE_STRING_MAX_SIZE 100 #define CONV_MAX_COUNT 14 #define ITEMS_PER_CONV_MAX_COUNT 5