I have a question for you.  I'm looking for a relatively simple, reliable
way to accomplish the following task:

1. Users launch a standalone VB app that is basically a data entry form.
2. Users would then launch Word and open a relevant document.
3. Users would select a string in the Word document, then right click and
select a destination.   I have a context menu in Word that has several 'send
to>destination' options.   Each destination in the context menu represents
an individual text box control on the standalone VB data entry form.
4. I would like to pass the selected text from Word to the corresponding
text box on the VB form.  Is there a way to do this through memory mapping?
Is there a fairly straightforward approach that I could try?

Thanks in advance

Joe

GetSetting() and SaveSettings()

these are registry calls, if you use the same path with a different
stringname, it should work.

JD

You could use a memory mapped file, and either read from the MM file using
copymemory or insert the string length in the four bytes before each string
and change your string's pointers to point to the first character.  Doing
this means that only one instance of the data exists.  Note: you would
probably have to use a named MM file (see PlatformSDK for more details)
If your data set is not large, then it probably isn't worth going to the
effort of using a MM file.  Another alternative is to send your VB a message
(WM_COPYDATA I think).
See www.mvps.org/vb Karl has samples of MM file, and  I think there is one
to do with App.PrevInst there that shows how to send data using sendmessage
api.
You could also look at using DDE or make your app an activeX EXE.

Bill.