VB Forum / General 2 / May 2005

I have 2 VB6 programs I have written and want to find some way for the
programs to communicate data to each other while they are both
running.  For instance when an event fires in program "A" it sends
information to program "B" that would run a subroutine in program 'B."
The 2 programs are VERY diferent and I don't want to somehow lob them
together into one program.  I'm looking for a basic description of how
I can do this that references the code elements I'd need.  I'm not
looking for someone to write the code for me (that's the fun part!)  I
need realtime communication and so far my own ideas are not good. I've
thought of switching focus on the programs and sending keystrokes to
the other program (talk about rigged!) or having a timed event where I
write info from program A to a text file and program B polls the file
every so often to get the info.  More complicated would be adding a
network control and using TCP or UDP ports to have the programs
literally talk to each other (way too complicated.)  Like I said,
these aren't great ideas!  Any help is appreciated!

Barb