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   Femme Verbeek schrieb:   
   > Dr John Stockton schreef:   
   >>> A BP program can start any 32 bit windows program simply with exec(....)   
   >>> If you know how to do it between two windows programs, a very simple   
   >>> method would be to let the BP application start a tiny 32 bit   
   >>> consolemode progam at the moment the event should occur. The 32 bit   
   >>> program creates the event for the dos program e.g. by putting a message   
   >>> on the windows clipboard or in shared memory.   
   >>   
   >> Since a message can be conveyed with a Longint or a short ShortString,   
   >> ISTM that it should be practical and could be useful for someone to   
   >> write a minimal such 32-bit program, with a parameter to identify (if   
   >> appropriate) the means of transfer, a parameter for the data type, and a   
   >> parameter for the date -- or whatever parameters are actually needed.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Why so difficult. Just a string containing any information you like   
   > makes it a universal tool   
   > ok, here it is:   
   (...)   
   > Run it from a bp application in the following way   
   >   
   > Program testmsg;   
   > uses dos;   
   > {$M 8192,0,0}   
   > begin   
   >    swapvectors;   
   >    exec(getenv('COMSPEC'),'/c msg2clip.exe Hello World');   
   >    swapvectors;   
   > end.   
      
   You can use interrupt 2Fh, AX=1703h to set clipboard data. Calling an   
   external program has several disadvantages - one of them being execution   
   speed. You don't want to do that.   
      
   Anyway, I don't recommend using the clipboard for communication between   
   two programs. That's not what it is for! The user doesn't expect a   
   program to change the content of the clipboard! Maybe there are some   
   functions which allow a DOS program to talk to windows. Have a look at   
   Ralf Brown's interrupt list, it can MAYBE help you (maybe not, I don't   
   know).   
      
   Wolf   
      
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