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Re: Omega Server Quotes into Excel ???????



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Albert:

Please stop asking for those pesky HIGH Priority receipts from anyone that opens
your posts here.

Change the settings of your email software. It's very annoying.

Albert Saab wrote:

> There is no mention of DDE or Dynamic Data Exchange anywhere in the Help
> application nor anywhere on the Omega research "knowledge base".  I guess
> the knowledge base is not that knowledgeable???
>
> Can you please give more information on how you accomplished this is TS4?  I
> will try to do the same in 2000i and see if that will work.
>
> Albert
>
> P.S.  here is the response I got from Omega:
>
> -------------------------------------------
> For your purposes, You should read the material on the Data Access Manager,
> which is the component that gets data from the Global Server. If you use
> Excel 97, you could probably add the type library to VBA and build a macro
> to produce the desired results. You could then apply the macro to a
> spreadsheet object embedded in the Omega Research Desktop. We personally
> hadn't considered that possibility, but someone briefly touched on that
> subject last week, and it does seem feasible to do. In the next week or so,
> I hope to investigate this approach.
>
> FYI, the subject of a DDE link between an Excel spreadsheet and incoming
> quotes has been a hot topic among customers for a while now. Product
> Management recently informed us that this DDE link will be available in the
> product, but at this time it's still too early to tell exactly when. Product
> Management has assured us, however, that this feature WILL make it into the
> product.
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hans esser [mailto:he96@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 10:34 AM
> To: albert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Omega Server Quotes into Excel ???????
>
> > > How do I pull the prices from the Globalserver into my excel spreadsheet
> > > so that I can compute profit or loss without having to manually enter
> > > the current prices every time.
>
> good-old-TS 4.0 was able to do that with very simple DDE - sorry, cant tell
> you for
> 00 00i
>
> maybe its the same......what does the manual tell about DDE ?
>
> rgds hans