| Re: IDL_IDLBridge in Virtual Machine [message #49446] |
Thu, 27 July 2006 06:59  |
Pete Warner
Messages: 14
Registered: July 2006
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Thanks for clearing that up. Last night I did what I should have before
asking, and tried to run the IDL Bridge demo at home on a computer with
only the VM installed. It didn't work at all.
codepod@gmail.com wrote:
> Mark Hadfield wrote:
>> Mark Hadfield wrote:
>>> Pete Warner wrote:
>>>> I would like to know whether or not the IDL_IDLBridge object is useful
>>>> for VM programs. The program I am working on will be used by people
>>>> with only the VM, and it would be very nice to do some computations in
>>>> the background.
>>>
>>> This has already been discussed on the group. See:
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>>> http://tinyurl.com/zwpuc
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>> Sorry, that URL is not quite as helpful as I thought. But the way I read
>> message 23 in the thread is that the IDL_IDLBridge object is supported
>> in the VM, but its Execute method is not. This was written by "CP", a
>> pseudonymous source who sounds pretty authoritative (and has a very cool
>> email address).
>>
>> Hmm ... this implies the IDL_IDLbridge is pretty much useless in the VM.
>> You can create a bridge but you can't make it actually execute IDL code.
>> Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than me can confirm?
>>
> Mark,
>
> Yes, as you suspect, the IDL-IDL Bridge is of no real use in VM mode.
> If execute was enabled it would be trivial to construct a simple IDL
> command line, which would allow for "free" IDL command line operations.
> This is the same reason the standard execute routine is disabled in VM
> mode also.
>
> Thanks for the comment on the email address. While not my first choice
> (I normally lurk around the web as codepilot), codepod is a fun 2nd
> choice.
>
> Cheers,
> -CP
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