DDEPOKE

Usage

TIBCO iProcess Workspace (Windows)

Warning: (iProcess only) This expression is not available to the TIBCO iProcess Script Server Plug-in. Therefore, even though you can successfully enter the expression in your iProcess Script plug-in definition, it will not be processed by the iProcess Engine. It will return SW_NA.

Send some data to a DDE server.

Syntax

DDEPOKE (channel, item, data, timeout)

where:

channel is a numeric value specifying the channel number of the conversation.
item is a server-specific text string representing the data item being sent.
data is a server-specific text string which is the data being sent.
timeout is a numeric value specifying the number of seconds to wait for a response.

Returns

One of the following numeric values:

Value

Description

0

Success

1

Not processed (bad item, or server does not handle POKE)

2

Timeout - server busy

3

Bad channel

4

Unknown error from server

Examples

TIBCO iProcess Modeler:

DDEPOKE (mychan, "COMM.BMK", strfield, 5)

TIBCO Business Studio:

IPEDDEUtil.DDEPOKE (mychan, "COMM.BMK", strfield, 5);