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ActiveApps


ActiveApps is a new protocol allowing any application to talk, and control, another. Designed to be implentable by any Desktop task, it is a superset of other implementations such as Impulse, StrongHelp, ANT URL protocol and others. It is designed to allow commands to be transmitted from one machine to another, whether it be via a phone line, LAN or the Internet.

The standard is implemented by means of two WIMP messages:

All WimpWorks applications are able to support the standard transparently, and also support one more additional method:

Exec <tokenised BASIC>
This will execute the tokenised BASIC string inside the application's code, this could be used, for instance, to control an application which doesn't supply an ActiveApps method for what you want to do. NB Certain commands which are insecure will not work.

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Last modified: Wed Aug 5 10:26:36 BST 1998 (Now uses MML)