<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Programming in XPCE/Prolog: Section B.2</TITLE><LINK REL=home HREF="index.html"> <LINK REL=contents HREF="Contents.html"> <LINK REL=index HREF="DocIndex.html"> <LINK REL=summary HREF="summary.html"> <LINK REL=previous HREF="sec-B.1.html"> <LINK REL=next HREF="sec-B.3.html"> <STYLE type="text/css"> /* Style sheet for SWI-Prolog latex2html */ dd.defbody { margin-bottom: 1em; } dt.pubdef { background-color: #c5e1ff; } pre.code { margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 1.5em; border: 1px dotted; padding-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; background-color: #f8f8f8; } div.navigate { text-align: center; background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dotted; padding: 5px; } div.title { text-align: center; padding-bottom: 1em; font-size: 200%; font-weight: bold; } div.author { text-align: center; font-style: italic; } div.abstract { margin-top: 2em; background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dotted; padding: 5px; margin-left: 10%; margin-right:10%; } div.abstract-title { text-align: center; padding: 5px; font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold; } div.toc-h1 { font-size: 200%; font-weight: bold; } div.toc-h2 { font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 2em; } div.toc-h3 { font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 4em; } div.toc-h4 { font-size: 100%; margin-left: 6em; } span.sec-nr { } span.sec-title { } span.pred-ext { font-weight: bold; } /* Footnotes */ sup.fn { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; } span.fn-text: { display: none; } sup.fn span {display: none;} sup:hover span { display: block !important; position: absolute; top: auto; left: auto; width: 80%; color: #000; background: white; border: 2px solid; padding: 5px; margin: 10px; z-index: 100; font-size: smaller; } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="white"> <DIV class="navigate"><A class="nav" href="index.html"><IMG SRC="home.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Home"></A> <A class="nav" href="Contents.html"><IMG SRC="index.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Contents"></A> <A class="nav" href="DocIndex.html"><IMG SRC="yellow_pages.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Index"></A> <A class="nav" href="summary.html"><IMG SRC="info.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Summary"></A> <A class="nav" href="sec-B.1.html"><IMG SRC="prev.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Previous"></A> <A class="nav" href="sec-B.3.html"><IMG SRC="next.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Next"></A> </DIV> <H2><A NAME="sec:B.2"><SPAN class="sec-nr">B.2</SPAN> <SPAN class="sec-title">Interprocess communication, extensions and interaction</SPAN></A></H2> <P> <UL> <LI><I>DDE</I><BR> <A NAME="idx:DDE:633"></A>Not (yet) supported by <font size=-1>XPCE</font>. SWI-Prolog supports it though, making DDE a feasible interprocess communication approach. <LI><I>WinSock</I><BR> <A NAME="idx:WinSock:634"></A>Provides standard TCP/IP communication, both server- and client-side. <LI><I>Named Pipes</I><BR> <A NAME="idx:namedpipes:635"></A>Not (yet) supported. <LI><I>OLE</I><BR> <A NAME="idx:OLE:636"></A><A NAME="idx:CORBA:637"></A>Not considered yet. We however are considering CORBA, which provides an open standard for object-oriented, network-transparent interprocess communications. CORBA and OLE are integrated. <LI><I>Drag-And-Drop</I><BR> <A NAME="idx:draganddrop:638"></A><font size=-1>XPCE</font> can accept dropped files from other applications. Inside the application, drag-and-drop is fully compatible to the Unix version. See <CODE>library(dragdrop)</CODE>. <LI><I>Cut/Paste</I><BR> <A NAME="idx:cutandpaste:639"></A>Supported for exchanging text, and pictures using the Windows MetaFile format. <LI><I>DLL</I><BR> <A NAME="idx:DLL:640"></A>Not supported by <font size=-1>XPCE</font>. SWI-Prolog provides it though, making DLL available to <font size=-1>XPCE/P</font>rolog applications. </UL> <P></BODY></HTML>