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15.3.2 Handling poke and request transactions

Poke and request transactions issued to a server object are handled by defining a method on each of the generic functions dde-server-poke and dde-server-request .

dde-server-poke

Generic Function

dde-server-poke server topic item data &key format &allow-other-keys

The generic function dde-server-poke is called in response to a poke transaction. A method specializing on the classes of server and topic should poke the data given by data into the item specified by item .

dde-server-request

Generic Function

dde-server-request server topic item &key format &allow-other-keys

The generic function dde-server-request is called in response to a request transaction. A method specializing on the classes of server and topic should return the data in item .


LispWorks User Guide - 18 Feb 2003

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