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PowerCOBOL V11.0 Reference
FUJITSU Software

4.87 DDEFormat Property

Description:

Contains the format name of the data being transferred from the DDE server.

Used in control(s):

DDE

Value:

The format name supported in the DDE server.

For example:
"CF_TEXT" (Text format),
"Excel: CSV" (Excel Comma-Separated Values)

When requesting data from a DDE server you need to specify a format name registered in the DDE server.

For application-specific-formats consult the documentation for the DDE server application.

Default value:

"CF_TEXT" - text format

COBOL picture:

X, up to 8192 bytes

OLE data type:

VT_BSTR

Design time access:

Set and reference.

Execution time access:

Set and reference.

Backward compatibility attribute:

POW-DDEFORMATPIC X(32)