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Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program [message #42219 is a reply to message #42217]

Mon, 17 January 2005 01:40

Nigel Wade
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Registered: March 1998

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Marc Reinig wrote:

> I have a Windows program that is a GUI.
>
> I have an IDL program that can do the underlying work. I would like to
> control the IDL program with the Windows GUI. My though would be to use
> sockets.
>
> Would this be viable?

Does IDL work in server mode on Windows? This would probably be the simplest
solution if you can achieve it. For more info look in the External
Development Guide in the section Remote Procedure Calls.

>
> Could I have a widget interface that would work asynchronously to
> communicate with the GUI over the socket?
>
> Any help or recommendations would be appreciated.

If the IDL process requires significant time and you want your GUI to be
responsive during the processing you need to be aware of issues related to
event driven programming and threads.

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		Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program By: Marc Reinig on Tue, 18 January 2005 10:24
		Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program By: KM on Tue, 18 January 2005 06:40
		Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program By: KM on Tue, 18 January 2005 06:37
		Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program By: Nigel Wade on Mon, 17 January 2005 01:40
		Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program By: Robert Barnett on Sun, 16 January 2005 23:08
		Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program By: Robert Barnett on Wed, 19 January 2005 13:44

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