What is "DDE support" ?
What is it for?

THX

from forum search

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=140710

google search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=...G=Google+Search

as i understand it, is a way to send messages to programs or whatever. it can be used with file associations (e.g. see explorer file types settings), obviously the program needs to be running. but i dont know much else about it..

i believe there was also some issue where dde would cause foobar window to always come to the front when sent a dde message (e.g. if file assoc use dde), not sure though

DDE
Acronym for Dynamic Data Exchange, an interprocess communication (IPC) system built into the Macintosh, Windows, and OS/2 operating systems. DDE enables two running applications to share the same data. For example, DDE makes it possible to insert a spreadsheet chart into a document created with a word processor. Whenever the spreadsheet data changes, the chart in the document changes accordingly.
Although the DDE mechanism is still used by many applications, it is being supplanted by OLE, which provides greater control over shared data.


www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DDE.html

I see was beat to the answer Sorry. But I was interested in what it was as well.
The definintion is from webopedia.com. There is some other related information about dde there also, if you are interested.

Just in case you are interested about ole - I was as well.

OLE
Abbreviation of Object Linking and Embedding, pronounced as separate letters or as oh-leh. OLE is a compound document standard developed by Microsoft Corporation. It enables you to create objects with one application and then link or embed them in a second application. Embedded objects retain their original format and links to the application that created them.
Support for OLE is built into the Windows and Macintosh operating systems. A competing compound document standard developed jointly by IBM, Apple Computer, and other computer firms is called OpenDoc.

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Thanks everybody.

What good does it do in foobar2000?

Open large numbers of files from Explorer faster, supposedly.

It avoids starting new foobar2000.exe instance for each file being added from explorer, and triggers some unwanted behaviors because of problems on windows OS side. You will need to manually edit file associations to actually use DDE for adding files. That option is provided there only because some people might find it useful (also accepts "command(<main menu command>)" and "playlist_command(<context menu command>)", should be possible to use it in mirc scripts or whatever).

Would 'Messenger' be able to use this as well? And I'm not talking windoze messenger thing.