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Interface with Controls Software

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RoguePoet01

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Oct 1, 2003
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This might be a stupid question, but I need to ask it.

We've got some controls software here at the plant; it's made by a fairly well-established engineering firm in the beverge business.

They write modules or "plug-ins" as they call them for their software, and these plug-ins can download data to an SQL file.

Here's the question: what are the magic words I have to ask them in order to learn how to interface with their programs?

In VB we call them COM files, and for this other piece of machinery it's called a DDE interface.

Maybe this is too broad of a question.

I keep asking this and they keep shining me on, basically.

All I want to do is learn how they interface with C++ programs, and I'll try to figure the rest out myself.

What I'm trying to fix is the fact that sometimes we will have to wait a long time for them to code the plug-ins, and I'd like to learn to do it myself.

Thanks for the help and the patience since I am a fledgling C++ programmer.
 
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