How do I use mIRCs built in DDE support ?
This section on mIRC’s built in DDE support is initiated by Prophet’s quick DDE Reference. Thanks for allowing me to include parts of your work in the mIRC FAQ! What is DDE? – DDE stands for Dynamic Data Exchange. DDE is used by programs running under Window to communicate with each other. In the typical case one of the programs involved acts as a DDE server, the other as a DDE client. The server is always accepting requests and commands and the client is requesting information and giving commands to the server. Good examples of the use of DDE are mIRC’s support of WWW browsers by the build in URL catcher and the support of the text to speech program ‘monologue’ by the /speak command. Read more about them in the sections 6-22 and 6-25. Setting up mIRC’s DDE server – To be able to control mIRC from within another application, program or another copy of mIRC running on your PC, you first have to make sure the DDE server is set to active. The server settings are found under File/Options/S
