DDE calls in Filemaker Pro 8

[powell]

When moving some datasets from Filemaker 6 to 7 to 8, I noticed one "feature" that no longer worked well in 8. I have a script makes a DDE call to an outside application-it turns out that it does not matter which application. The script has a loop and depending on the data it has to work on, will make make a DDE call for each record-which could be hundreds if not more calls. After exactly 128 DDE calls, the DDE function stops working. You have to exit FPro 8 in order for it to work again. Flushing the cache, puttting a pause in the script, exiting the script, making a DDE call to a different application has no effect. Only exiting the app does. This was never an issue for earlier verisons of FPro.

[powell]

Folks, just found out from Filemaker Support that this is a known bug...

[Ted S]

Powell,

You are perhaps the only person I have ever heard of that is actually using DDE. Congratualtions on getting DDE to do anything!

I think most folks use Send Event (or Send Message) to trigger outside applications.

[Kip]

maybe if we pay for the update again for filemaker 9 this will be fixed...(just like the pop up list bug)