2006/7/24, Alexandre Moreira < alexandream@gmail.com>:

2006/7/21, Enrico Tröger < enrico.troeger@uvena.de>:
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:13:17 -0300, "Alexandre Moreira"
<alexandream@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it won't be hard to make the fifo stuff we use in *nix work
> in the win32 build also, although this is not the "Right Way" of
> doing this in windows (DDE is too windows-complicated for my unix
> head).
>
> For that, I must know what the GEANY_FIFO_NAME constant resolves to in
> Windows building (trying to hack something with no good development
GEANY_FIFO_NAME is just an macro for "geany_fifo.0"
And this file exists in the configuration directory of Geany, for
example ~/.geany/geany_fifo.0 or whatever was specified with the -c
command line switch.

Here is the important part.

Oh, I forgot to mention, that windows use a completely different scheme for pipes so, we won't have the geany_fifo.0 file anywhere in the filesystem, (it has a pseudo-filesystem made for pipes ... something like //./pipe/MYPIPENAME or other more weird name, I can't remember now). That way we will need to have the pipe creation code isolated by platform (posix // win32).

End of important part.

Regards,
Alexandre Moreira.

More interesting could be the variable app->fifo_ioc, which points to
the open IOChannel to this file. But who knows who are IOChannels used
under Windows ;-).

Regards,
Enrico

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While researching the named pipe mechanism in Windows I found out that Windows 95/98/ME cannot create named pipes (which would make them unable to use Named pipes the way Geany would do it *sigh*).

Still, The DDE stuff would be usable in basically every version of Windows, but I have no knowledge about it (except for the basics on "how it works" ... I cannot program anything with it)... and honestly, is too messy and windows-centric that I just don't plan to learn it.

What you guys say ? we have some options (as far as I can see):

Wait until someone can implement it in DDE "The Right Way";
I try to implement it in Named pipes, but the support will only exist for windows NT, 2K, XP, Vista;
We have a drink and forget about this one-instance support on windows (lol).

Regards,
Alexandre Moreira.